An October 2022 study on mice by Princeton Neuroscience Institute said,
“It’s a complicated environment where a mouse has to decide what to do around a bully mouse,”
“What decision it makes has profound consequences in terms of how it ends up.”
“Even more strongly related to resilience was how much dopamine the animals had in their reward system during the time when they were starting to fight back. That’s what was really cool to me — that an animal that is not just fighting back but is rewarded for fighting back is the one that becomes resilient.”
“I’m very interested in the question of whether we can teach resilience,”
“We need to think about ways to help the people who seem to be more susceptible to cope with the stresses of the world,”
“Information about our dynamic interactions with the environment will be useful for tracking our habits that might be helpful or harmful,”