About this Event
This ECNP Network satellite meeting, organized by the , aims to advance a standardized and clinically relevant framework for resilience in mental health. Resilience is increasingly recognized as a key concept for explaining why individuals differ in their responses to adversity, challenges, and disease, yet its definition, measurement, biological substrates, and clinical translation remain highly heterogeneous across disciplines.
The meeting will bring together leading experts from psychiatry, neuroscience, psychology, and translational research to examine resilience from complementary perspectives, including conceptual foundations, methodological approaches, and neurobiological and psychological mechanisms. By integrating theoretical, empirical, and clinical viewpoints, the satellite will foster dialogue on how resilience can be more precisely operationalized and used to inform precision psychiatry interventions.
The satellite will provide an opportunity to identify conceptual convergences between basic and clinical research, methodological challenges, and future priorities for moving beyond resilience as a broad descriptive term and toward a measurable, mechanistically grounded, and clinically actionable construct.
Agenda
🕑: 09:00 AM - 09:05 AM
Welcome
Host: Christiaan Vinkers and Igor Branchi
🕑: 09:05 AM - 09:45 AM
Resilience: basic concepts, recent insights
Host: Raffael Kalisch
Info: Leibniz Institute for Resilience Research, Mainz, Germany
🕑: 09:45 AM - 10:05 AM
The Stress Continuum in the Development of Chronic Stress-Related Disorders
Host: Agorastos Agorastos
Info: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
🕑: 10:05 AM - 10:25 AM
Sensory Processing Sensitivity - a key factor in resilience?
Host: Corina Greven
Info: Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
🕑: 10:25 AM - 10:35 AM
Building Resilience through Plasticity and Context: A Network Approach
Host: Aurelia Viglione
Info: Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
🕑: 10:35 AM - 10:45 AM
Noradrenergic Fkbp5 loss disrupts social behavior and NE dynamics in the BLA
Host: Joeri Bordes
Info: Neurocentre Magendie Inserm, Bordeaux, France
🕑: 10:45 AM - 10:55 AM
Mapping the Stressed Brain: Linking Task and Rest via Dynamic States
Host: Lejla Colic
Info: Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany
🕑: 10:55 AM - 11:25 AM
Cofee break
🕑: 11:25 AM - 11:45 AM
Promoting Resilience at Scale: Mechanism-Informed Digital and Community-Based
Host: Birgit Kleim
Info: University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
🕑: 11:45 AM - 12:05 PM
Neurobiology of Exercise Training-Induced Stress Resilience: A Focus on ∆FOSB
Host: Joram Mul
Info: University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
🕑: 12:05 PM - 12:25 PM
Neural Basis of Resilience to Social Stress
Host: Sarah Ayash
Info: Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
🕑: 12:25 PM - 01:25 PM
Lunch
🕑: 01:25 PM - 01:45 PM
Susceptibility and Resilience to Stress: Investigating the Long-Term Effects o
Host: Juan Pablo Lopez
Info: Karolinska Institutet, Department of Neuroscience, Stockholm, Sweden
🕑: 01:45 PM - 02:25 PM
Stress Vulnerability and Resilience: Neurobiology and Translational Challenges
Host: Patrizia Campolongo
Info: Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology “Vittorio Erspamer”, Rome, Italy
🕑: 02:25 PM - 02:35 PM
Introducing ALBA Network
🕑: 02:35 PM - 03:20 PM
Round Table
Host: Christiaan Vinkers, Mathias Schmidt, Igor Branchi
🕑: 03:20 PM - 03:30 PM
Final greetings
Host: Christiaan Vinkers, Mathias Schmidt, Igor Branchi
Event venue & nearby stays
Kraepelinstraße 2, Kraepelinstraße 2, München, Germany
Concerts, fests, parties, meetups — all the happenings, one place.