{"id":237318,"date":"2026-05-17T18:07:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T23:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/brain-scans-reveal-what-resilience-really-looks-like"},"modified":"2026-05-17T18:07:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T23:07:49","slug":"brain-scans-reveal-what-resilience-really-looks-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/brain-scans-reveal-what-resilience-really-looks-like","title":{"rendered":"Brain scans reveal what resilience really looks like"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brain-scans-reveal-what-resilience-really-looks-like2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The expected explanation was straightforward: resilient people would respond more strongly to rewards, allowing positive outcomes to outweigh the negatives. But the brain scans told a different story.<\/p>\n<p>In ten prefrontal and parietal regions tied to cognitive control, the resilient group showed stronger increases in activity when negative information appeared.<\/p>\n<p>Their brains were not muting losses. They were engaging more circuitry to handle them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The expected explanation was straightforward: resilient people would respond more strongly to rewards, allowing positive outcomes to outweigh the negatives. But the brain scans told a different story. In ten prefrontal and parietal regions tied to cognitive control, the resilient group showed stronger increases in activity when negative information appeared. Their brains were not muting [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}