STANDUP
STANDUP is one of the four funded projects in the second transnational call of ERANID 'Society and Responses to drug use'.
Summary
Sensory Processing SensiTivity AND drug Use recovery Pathways
Nowadays we are more and more exposed to external environmental stimuli and increased performance demands. This particularly affects those individuals who are more sensitive to such stimuli than average, like people high on the trait “sensory processing sensitivity (SPS). While these people generally have a benefit by being flexible and creative, they are also more susceptible to overstimulation. Drug use can serve as a dysfunctional way to deal with overstimulation. Our proposal will employ existing longitudinal human cohort studies and an environmentally-controlled animal study to delineate for the first time which social environmental factors increase drug use and which ones contribute to the recovery from drug use, in high SPS subjects. The identification of associated biomarkers will provide a mechanistic account for the ‘causing’ and ‘curing’ potential of social environmental factors in high SPS individuals.
Presentation
The three funded projects in the second ERANID call for proposals were presented during the wrap-up meeting on March 2nd, 2017 in Brussels.
Researchers and research institutions
| Position | Name | Institution | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| PI | Judith Homberg | Radboud University Nijmegen | The Netherlands |
| Co-PI 1 | Fabio Fumagalli | Department of Pharmacological and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Milan | Italy |
| Co-PI 2 | Maria Melchior | Department of Social Epidemiology, INSERM | France |
| Co-PI 3 | Boris B Quednow | Psychiatric Hospital of the University of Zurich | Switzerland (own funding) |
