After a stressful event, some people develop a stress-related disorder. Others, however, are more resilient. A joint study by the Leibniz Institute for Resilience Research (LIR), the University Medical Center Halle and the University of Münster underlines the fact that this so-called resilience is not a rigid basic state, but is subject to active changes in the brain. The studies on humans and mice highlighted the special role of the visual center for the first time and suggest that resilience is associated with improved processing of visual information. It also appears to be trainable.

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