GOALS OF THIS CHAPTER 2 PRINCIPLES OF DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROSCIENCE AND DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOPATHOLOGY 3 THE BRAIN AS A DYNAMIC, SELF-ORGANIZING DEVELOPMENTAL SYSTEM 3 SELF-ORGANIZATION 4 THE DEVELOPING BRAIN 4 EXPERIENCE AND BRAIN DEVELOPMENT 6 Mechanisms of Neural Plasticity 7 Neural Plasticity: Historical Aspect 9 Neurobiological Pathways to Psychopathology 13 Social Experience and Brain Develop...

resilience thinking in urban environment has been recently proposed as an effective measure to realize the objectives of sustainable development, minimize uncertainties and non linear interactions. this concept, in the context of modern urban ecology makes it possible to integrate natural and human factors and in urban systems and understanding the interactions between them, expanding sustainab...

this study is aimed at comparing life expectancy, resilience and differentiation between adolescents of single-child and multi-child families living in khorramabad, iran. this is a causal-comparative study and the statistical population consisted of all the male and female adolescent students in the middle and high schools of khorramabad in the academic year 2015-2016. the sample included 150 s...

results the behavioral modification of mothers with the barkley method significantly enhanced their resiliency with children of adhd in the experimental group compared to the control group. patients and methods twenty-four mothers of children diagnosed with adhd were randomly enrolled in this study. the mothers were selected from the 22nd of bahman hospital of qazvin city. mothers with a low sc...

Rising interest in the resilience of ecological systems has spawned diverse interpretations of the term's precise meaning. This paper classifies and explores definitions of resilience from the ecological literature using a dynamical systems framework. A model consisting of ordinary differential equations is assumed to represent the ecological system. The question " resilience of what to what? "...

Over the past decade, the concept of resilience has gained momentum in climate change and disaster research. Although the relevance of resilience in dealing with environmental changes has been acknowledged by these communities, an impasse in research occurs when trying to extract the crux of resilience and transform it into an implementable entity in vulnerability assessments and information sy...

Community resilience is a key concept in the National Health Security Strategy that emphasizes development of multi-sector partnerships and equity through community engagement. Here, we describe the advancement of CR principles through community participatory methods in the Los Angeles County Community Disaster Resilience (LACCDR) initiative. LACCDR, an initiative led by the Los Angeles County ...

Resilience is rapidly becoming a prominent concept in research, policy and practice. However, it is apparent that there is no consistent meaning of resilience being used by those involved in governing and managing forests and tree health. We aimed to (1) identify how the concept of resilience is defined in a range of decision-making contexts, (2) develop an understanding of resilience, which wi...

BACKGROUND Working for the UK National Health Service (NHS) requires working for organisations under financial pressures and frequent restructures, which can lead to anxiety over continuing employment and income. There are currently no studies to date that have examined the influence of personal resilience across all professions and demographics in the NHS. This study aims to quantify resilienc...