The Brain Conference: Principles of the Adaptive Mind – Towards an Integrated Understanding of the Dynamics of Mental Health
Heraklion, Greece
Organiser: FENS
Additional Organiser: Lundbeck Foundation
Attendance type(s): In Person
FENS members will benefit from preferential rates
Event Dates: 27—30 Oct 2025
Registrations will open in May 2025.
Co-Chairs
Roshan Cools
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Netherlands
Walasek, N., Panchanathan, K., & Frankenhuis, W.E. (2024). Functional Ecology (advance online publication)
Mental health depends on our ability to adapt our brain, mind and decisions flexibly to challenges and stressors in our changing environment. Such adaptation occurs over several nested timescales: within an individual’s lifetime through both rapid learning and longer-term developmental plasticity, and between generations through the transfer of adaptive traits. Yet we have little understanding of the basic principles of healthy adaptation to stress. This Brain Conference will bring together a unique and interdisciplinary group of internationally recognised experts in evolutionary biology, computational cognitive neuroscience, developmental psychology, systems neuroscience, genetics/epigenetics and clinical psychiatry, to promote synthesis and synergy between the computational, social and life sciences to advance knowledge about the adaptive mind.
Organised by FENS in collaboration with the Lundbeck Foundation, awarder of The Brain Prize, these bi-annual conferences bring together in an intimate setting outstanding researchers in key areas of contemporary neuroscience to discuss current concepts and define challenges for future research.
For enquiries and press registration, please contact The Brain Conferences Office: brain(at)fens.org
Contact Details
Name: The Brain Conferences
Email: brain@fens.org