Psychological resilience is often misunderstood as simple "toughness" or an insensitivity to stress. However, true resilience is the brain's capacity to adapt and recover after a stressful event.

The day of Mr. Lee, a 48-year-old office worker, begins as soon as he opens his eyes to his smartphone. He checks multiple alarms and messages that piled up overnight. On the subway to work, he ...

High‑resilience individuals (red) showed higher default‑mode activity and lower high‑beta power 60 minutes after stress. Low‑resilience individuals (blue) showed sustained salience‑network activation ...