ArticleWorld psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA)2020
What is resilience: an affiliative neuroscience approach.
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127 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- A Systematic Review on Parent-Child Synchrony: The Role of Stress, Resilience and Psychopathology.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2026Pooled it
- Resilience in Bipolar Disorder Compared to Clinical and Non-Clinical Populations: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica · 2026Pooled it
- A systematic review on shared biological mechanisms of depression and anxiety in comorbidity with psoriasis, atopic dermatitis, and hidradenitis suppurativa.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2021Pooled it
- Interpersonal Synchrony in the Context of Caregiver-Child Interactions: A Document Co-citation Analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Pooled it
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- Effects of the CALM intervention on resilience in Chinese patients with early breast cancer: a randomized trial.Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology · 2023Trial
- Oxytocin, cortisol, and cognitive control during acute and naturalistic stress.Stress (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2021Trial
- Heart rate synchrony as an objective biomarker in psychotherapy: a wearable-based pilot study.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2026Article
- Influencing factors and prediction of creativity among college students in traditional Chinese medicine schools: network analysis.Scientific reports · 2026Article
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- Mother-Child Synchrony and Behavioral Problems in Chinese Children: A Preliminary fNIRS-Hyperscanning Study.Brain and behavior · 2026Article
- Neuroscience-Informed Creative Group Therapy for Processing Trauma and Developing Resilience During Wartime.Journal of personalized medicine · 2026Review
- Long term effects of childhood exposure to violence in fragile and conflict affected settings.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2026Article
- Social Support Among Minoritized Emerging Adults With Serious Psychological Health Issues.Emerging adulthood (Print) · 2026Article
- Psychological Resilience in Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Jordan Is Associated with Insomnia Severity: A Cross-Sectional Analysis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Comparison of the playfulness of mothers of preschool children with typical development and developmental delays.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Integrating autonomic and affective pathways in borderline personality disorder: the triangle therapy hypothesis.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Parent and Child Influences on Adrenocortical Synchrony During Middle Childhood.Developmental psychobiology · 2025Article
- Biomarkers and Mechanisms of Cardiovascular Susceptibility and Resilience to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.Reviews in cardiovascular medicine · 2025Review
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Abstract
Resilience - a key topic in clinical science and practice - still lacks a clear conceptualization that integrates its evolutionary and human-specific features, refrains from exclusive focus on fear physiology, incorporates a developmental approach, and, most importantly, is not based on the negation (i.e., absence of symptoms following trauma). Building on the initial condition of mammals, whose brain matures in the context of the mother's body and caregiving behavior, we argue that systems and processes that participate in tuning the brain to the social ecology and adapting to its hardships mark the construct of resilience. These include the oxytocin system, the affiliative brain, and biobehavioral synchrony, all characterized by great flexibility across phylogenesis and ontogenesis. Three core features of resilience are outlined: plasticity, sociality and meaning. Mechanisms of sociality by which coordinated action supports diversity, endurance and adaptation are described across animal evolution. Humans' biobehavioral synchrony matures from maternal attuned behavior in the postpartum to adult-adult relationships of empathy, perspective-taking and intimacy, and extends from the mother-child relationship to other affiliative bonds throughout life, charting a fundamental trajectory in the development of resilience. Findings from three high-risk cohorts, each tapping a distinct disruption to maternal-infant bonding (prematurity, maternal depression, and early life stress/trauma), and followed from birth to adolescence/young adulthood, demonstrate how components of the neurobiology of affiliation confer resilience and uniquely shape the social brain.
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