rhine main neuroscience network: 7th rmn² lecture on 10 February 2025 with a talk on „Gehirn und Umwelt – Risiken und Resilienz” by Professor Meyer-Lindenberg
The human brain can be influenced – with regard to both sickness and health. On Monday, 10 February 2025, renowned psychiatrist and neuroscientist Prof. Dr. Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg will speak about risk factors promoting mental illness and resilience factors protecting against mental illness at the 7th lecture of the rhine-main neuroscience network (rmn²). The event “Gehirn und Umwelt – Risiken und Resilienz” ("The brain and the environment - risks and resilience) will start at 5 pm in building 505 H (Hörsaal Chirurgie, University Medical Center of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Langenbeckstr. 1, 55131 Mainz). Entry is free, prior registration is not required.
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Mental disorders are widespread and frequently severe. Risk factors promoting mental illness and resilience factors protecting against mental illness are the subject matter of neuroscientific research. The aim is to better understand the mechanisms affecting the brain to be able to preventatively address mental disorders at an early stage.
At the 7th rmn² lecture, Prof. Dr. Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, director of the Central Institute of Mental Health (CIMH) in Mannheimmedical director of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the Central Institute of Mental Health (CIMH) and professor at Heidelberg University and Medical Faculty Mannheim will present his research approach in more detail. In his lecture “Gehirn und Umwelt – Risiken und Resilienz”, he will discuss his approach in the light of environmental risk factors (e.g. urbanity) and resilience factors (e.g. experience of nature) and present new findings from which preventative and therapeutic measures can be derived in the future, for example with regard to cities and towns as living environments.
Professor Meyer-Lindberg’s lecture will be preceded by welcome speeches by Univ.-Prof. Dr. Susann Schweiger, spokesperson of rmn² and director of the Institute of Human Genetics at the University Medical Center of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, the acting scientific director of the University Medical Center of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Schild, and the rmn² deputy spokesperson Prof. Dr. Andreas Reif of University Hospital Frankfurt. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Klaus Lieb, director of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University Medical Center of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and scientific director of Leibniz Institute for Resilience Research (LIR) will be the host of the event.
About the rhine-main neuroscience network (rmn²)
The rhine-main neuroscience network (rmn²) is a strong alliance of neuroscience institutions in the Rhine-Main metropolitan region. Members are Goethe University Frankfurt with the Interdisciplinary Center for Neuroscience, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz with the Focus Program Translational Neurosciences and Technical University of Darmstadt together with the Institute for Molecular Biology and Leibniz Institute for Resilience Research in Mainz, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies as well as the Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience and the Max Planck Institutes for Brain Research and Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt. Together with Berlin and Munich, the rmn² is a center for brain research in Germany with international visibility.
German text: Universitätsmedizin Mainz