The (Neuro)-Science Behind Resilience: A Focus on Stress and Reward.

Abstract

of disorders in a transdiagnostic approach based on clinical neuroscience research results. Preliminary studies from our group suggest that in children of parents suffering from depression, reactions to rewards are impacted differently than in a control group under acute stress conditions (Gaillard et al., 2020; Martin-Soelch et al., 2020). These results are interesting because our partici­ pants had no clinical symptoms, but they showed different neural activation to reward stimuli and to the effect of stress on their processing. This may suggest a form of latent vulnerability that is not observable at the behavioral level. These results are in line with differences observed in response to rewarding information (without stress) in offspring of depressed parents (McCabe et al., 2012)