Projects

The new Hochschulmedizin (HMZ) flagship project STRESS has started officially on January 1st 2022 with the aims to understand, diagnose and treat the effects of stress on people’s mental and physical health. Researchers in various fields – psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience, cell and molecular biology, engineering, cardiology, translational bioinformatics – will work together to investigate the risk and resilience to stress across life.

The Executive and Steering Committees have worked on working definitions of the key parameters Stress and Resilience. Note that they are subject to revision based on ongoing discussions and emerging research. At present, they synthesize established definitions from existing literature (see references) and reflect the deliberations of the Executive and Steering Committee of GSRNet. The goal is to establish harmonized definitions that are applicable across disciplines and vertebrate species.

Stress is an organism’s psychological and/or physiological response to perceived internal or external challenges or demands (stressors). This response typically involves…