Stress and Skin Dynamics

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    Please forgive me being off topic once again

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    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
    Last edited by Trees: 18/03/19
 
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