Spaces for brain restoration: reserve and resilience

Why do some people who lived through war, abuse or terrible loss overcome these situations, becoming stronger? In physics, a material is resilient when deformed by a force, recovering after its original shape. In recent years, neuroscientists have realized that the brain behaves similarly.

For different reasons, our brain can react and restructure itself in traumatic situations, although the 'restoration' capacity varies across the population. The scientific community has focused on this capacity in the last decade to understand it, delve into its mechanisms, and try to find out how to enhance it.