The Brain Conference: Principles of the Adaptive Mind
October 27 - October 30
Towards an integrated understanding of the dynamics of mental health and stress resilience as adaptation to uncertainty across multiple nested timescales
Mental health depends on our ability to adapt our brain, mind and decisions flexibly to the uncertainty of our constantly 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 uncertainty for stress resilience.
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.