Title: The Neuroscience of Building a Resilient Brain - The Best Brain Possible
Headings: The Neuroscience of Building a Resilient Brain
The Neuroscience of Building a Resilient Brain
What is Resilience?
Resilience depends on how well your brain handles stress, and it can be learned.
Resilience as a Neuroplastic Process
Susceptibility to Stress Is a “Failure of Plasticity”
What a Resilient Brain Looks Like
How to Increase Your Brain’s Resiliency

Content: The Neuroscience of Building a Resilient Brain - The Best Brain Possible
The Neuroscience of Building a Resilient Brain
What makes one person more resilient than another? Some people go through unfathomable pain, tremendous suffering, and extreme hardship. While these events may slow them down and set them back for a bit, they manage to somehow endure, keep moving forward, and even grow through it all. On the other hand, some people are completely derailed by stressful life events, get stuck in depression, and maybe even spiral out of control. As it turns out, it all boils down to how your brain handles stress. What is Resilience? Resilience is the process of adapting in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats or significant sources of stress, such as family or relationship problems, serious health challenges, or workplace and financial issues. It means “bouncing back” from difficult life experiences. Being resilient doesn’t mean that you don’t experience hard times. In fact, emotional pain and sadness are common in people who have suffered major adversity and trauma in their lives.