Dr Michał Ślęzak from the Łukasiewicz-Polish Research Network of the Technology Development Centre in Wrocław, in cooperation with scientists from Germany, will carry out a research project under the Weave-UNISONO programme. The Polish team will receive more than 2.2 million PLN to carry out the research, the National Science Centre said.

Dr Michał Ślęzak, together with Dr Mathias Schmidt from the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich and Dr Nils Gassen from the University Hospital in Munich, will jointly implement the project ‘The role of mitochondrial metabolism of astrocytes in chronic stress’.

As part of the project, the scientists will investigate the neurobiological basis of psychiatric diseases. The German and Polish teams will jointly verify the key hypothesis of the study, according to which chronic stress disrupts the metabolic function of astrocytes (glial cells in the brain), which can cause dysfunction of neural networks that are responsible for the control of affective behaviour.

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