Donders Session: The Adaptive Function of Arousal and Stress – Redefining Mental Health
Date: 17 April 2025
A Donders Session organized by the Computational Neuropsychiatry Platform (CNP) focused on the computational, developmental, and neurobiological foundations of adaptation to stress, and how these insights inform evolving definitions of mental health.
The session includes a keynote lecture, early-career research pitches, and a panel discussion.
Program:
- 10:00 – 10:30 | Keynote Lecture: The Evolution and Development of Adaptive Responses to Stressful Environments – Willem Frankenhuis (UvA)
- 10:30 – 10:40 | Q&A
- 10:45 – 10:55 | Seeing controllability and valence: The adaptive function of arousal for metacognitive control – Yanfang Xia (DCCN, Dept. Psychiatry)
- 10:58 – 11:08 | Effects of childhood adversity on behavioral flexibility – Maria Waltmann (Würzburg)
- 11:11 – 11:21 | Real-time stress detection for just-in-time adaptive interventions – Sophie Bögemann (DCCN, Dept. Cognitive Neuroscience)
- 11:25 – 12:00 | Panel Debate: Redefining Mental Health in Terms of Adaptation to Stress Chair: Roshan Cools Panel Members: Erno Hermans, Rogier Kievit, Willem Frankenhuis, Marie-Jose van Tol, and invited members of the Nijmegen Computational Psychiatry community
This session provide a platform for interdisciplinary discussions on stress adaptation, its implications for mental health, and future research directions.
Organizers: Roshan Cools, Hanneke den Ouden, Eliana Vassena
On behalf of the Computational Neuropsychiatry Platform (CNP)