Developmental
Origins Of Resilience

Investigating the neurocircuitry of stress resilience through a multi-species, multi-scale approach.

Uncovering the science of resilience

through a robust bottom-up basic science mechanistic approach.

What we’re about

Enter the world of the DOOR lab

History has focused on when things go wrong.
We focus on when things go right.

Disease Prevention

Harness resilience circuity for health promotion

Multi-Scale

From single neuron to whole-brain circuits

Multi-Species

Study lab mice, lab rats, wild rats and humans

Multi-Circuit

When no method exists, we develop one

Our mission

Understanding resilience circuitry as a novel disease-prevention strategy

Our main mission is to uncover the mechanisms of resilience – across species and across the lifespan – using a comprehensive set of experimental tools and designs.

Over the past century, science has generated abundant tools to treat disease; despite the enormous potential for global impact, much less research has been devoted to preventing it.

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