Heuvel Lab

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ERC Consolidator Grant · 2020

Connecting cross-condition patterns of brain connectivity towards a common mechanism of mental conditions and prediction connectomics

The brain is one of the most complex living systems we know and has an enormous capacity to regulate our physiology, behaviour and cognition. 30% of the European population however has to deal with a mental challenge, ranging from depression to burnout to psychosis, etcetera. These conditions are traditionally seen as separate disorders, but there is growing evidence that many mental conditions share overlap in terms of their genetics and symptomatology. The brain mechanisms behind this cross-disorder overlap reflecting a common biological factor of mental conditions remains unknown. One of the key problems is that the current field is centralised around ‘single-condition examinations’,…

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