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From Neuron to Social Context: Restoring Resilience as a Capacity for Good Survival

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This chapter focuses on individual factors and their interaction with social ecologies reviewing the neurobiological mechanisms that facilitate adaptation. The chapter provides a brief overview of the basic brain, endocrine, and behavioral mechanisms that are related to resilience at a biobehavioral level. A number of concepts are reviewed, such as homeostasis, affiliation as an antistress system, brain circuits and their responsivity to context, mirror neurons, social neural networks, and the nature of personal agency.

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Kent, M. (2012). From Neuron to Social Context: Restoring Resilience as a Capacity for Good Survival. In: Ungar, M. (eds) The Social Ecology of Resilience. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0586-3_11

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