By understanding the immediate short-term effects of acute stress, such as the stress of finding yourself in the path of a large truck, the research will also shed light on what happens in the brain during long-term chronic stress related to work or personal problems.
Funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) the three-year project is a result of collaboration initiated through the University's Bristol Neuroscience network (BN), which is key in enabling such cross-discipline research - in this case endocrinology (the study of hormones) and neuroscience.
The project will be jointly led by Professors Kei Cho and Stafford Lightman from the University's Henry Wellcome Laboratories for Integrative Neuroscience and Endocrinology, with Professor Graham Collingridge from the University MRC Centre for Synaptic Plasticity.
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