Please forgive me being off topic once again
oh me is so rude and cheeky
-----------------------------
Habituation of the electrodermal response – A biological correlate of resilience?
Quite a powerful introduction to this area:
"Psychological resilience has been defined as the process of positive adjustment to adverse and potentially traumatic events [1].
Resilient individuals are known to exhibit positive adaptation when they encounter significant adversity, tragedy, threat, or other sources of stress [2].
The term “resilience” was first used in this context by Block [3]; however the concept could be traced back to Freud’s theory of personality where it had a name of “ego strength” [4].
In the context of exposure to adverse or traumatic events, an indicator of resilience would be the absence of psychiatric disorder symptoms, such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
This explains why there has been a growing interest in resilience in at risk populations, most notably first responders and military personnel (eg. [5], [6]).
There is extensive literature covering psychobiology of resilience (see [7] for review); it provides substantial evidence that anxiety and depression are closely linked with psychological resilience, and with disorders that arise from a lack of psychological resilience, such as PTSD [8]."
Source:
Walker FR, Thomson A, Pfingst K, Vlemincx E, Aidman E, Nalivaiko E (2019) Habituation of the electrodermal response – A biological correlate of resilience? PLoS ONE 14(1): e0210078.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0210078
