Structural brain correlates of resilience to traumatic stress in Dutch police officers

Resilient police officers show a specific pattern of increased structural connectivity, which is associated to the use of higher order emotion regulation strategies. Given this finding in an area that has not been implicated in stress-related disorders before, as well as the null findings in areas repeatedly shown to be involved in stress-related disorders, the current study indicates that resilience is not simply the opposite of having psychiatric symptoms, but rather an independent construct.