The Neuroscience of Resilience: How to Bounce Back
Resilience is not just about how your brain withstands adversity, but also how it becomes stronger as a result. This is a deep dive into the neuroscience of resilience and science-based strategies for how to build resilience. If you want to get exclusive videos, blog posts, and livestreams AND help me keep creating videos like this one, please sign up for Sense of Mind's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/senseofmind Sources: I want to make sure to credit a 2020 review article called "An affective neuroscience model of boosting resilience in adults" by Golnaz Tabibnia published in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. However, there were 39 other sources used for this video (too many to fit into this description!) so if you'd like to see a full list of sources used for this video, click here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dS3C5TxZZGFO8GD6PxRDaJ9biNPLwPPr7nU2Mj-erhA/edit?usp=sharing Chapters: 00:00 From failure to success 00:33 Step 1: Control Negative Emotions 01:04 The Brain’s “Distress” System 03:22 Interoception and emotion 04:35 How the brain regulates negative emotions 05:38 Emotion Regulation Strategies 06:55 Learned Helplessness 10:10 Step 2: Enhance Your Mindset 10:50 The Dopamine System 11:42 The Mesolimbic Dopamine Pathway 12:20 The Mesocortical Dopamine Pathway 12:44 The Nigrostriatal Pathway 13:32 Reward, Stress, Pleasure, Dopamine, and Opioids 15:46 Broaden and Build Theory (& Positive Psychology) 17:03 Positive Psychology and Optimism 18:28 The Looking Forward Tool 19:41 Gratitude Journaling 19:59 Three Good Things Exercise 20:59 Sense of Purpose and Resilience 21:40 How to Cultivate a Sense of Purpose 24:03 Growth Mindset and the Brain 26:52 Step 3: Improve Your Health 27:12 Exercise, Resilience, and the Brain 29:48 Sleep, Resilience, and the Brain 32:20 Cognitive Flexibility and Resilience -- All graphics and images obtained from scientific articles have been credited in the video and/or in the above list of references. Wikipedia images: All wikipedia images have been credited in the video and all are licensed under either CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US) or CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en_US) All B-roll comes from either https://www.storyblocks.com/ (using the appropriate purchased license) or from https://www.pexels.com/ All other images are property of Andrew Cooper-Sansone