How the brain responds to positive emotions is key to resilience after trauma, WTC responder research shows

New research has found that how the brain responds to anticipated rewards plays a key role in building psychological resilience after a traumatic experience. The findings from the new study among 9/11 responders, appearing in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, support the premise that the capacity to notice and respond to positive information in the environment may buffer the negative effects of substantial trauma exposure.

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