“Adapting to Stress: Understanding the Neurobiology of Resilience,” an article recently published in Behavioral Medicine, examines the way our bodies, specifically our brains, become “stress-resilient.” There is a significant variation in the way individuals react and respond to extreme stress and adversity — some individuals develop psychiatric conditions such as posttraumatic stress disorder or major depressive disorder — others recover from stressful experiences without displaying significant symptoms of psychological ill-health, demonstrating stress-resilience.
To understand why some individuals exhibit characteristics of a resilient profile, the interplay between neurochemical, genetic, and epigenetic processes over time needs to be explained.
