Center for the Resilient Mind
Support the launch of the new Center for Resilient Mind.
The Center for the Resilient Mind supports the collaborations of neuroscientists, psychologists, clinicians, educators, artists, and social workers to identify, measure and capitalize on the brain mechanisms and mental health practices that afford resiliency to challenges that otherwise lead to lives of diminished opportunity, chronic disease, and mental illness – to understand how we can bend but not break.
Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
College of Engineering and Computer Science
College of Education
Why do some people effectively cope with heritable risks for brain disorders or the impact of traumatic stress, whereas others suffer the debilitating consequences of addiction, depression or Alzheimer’s Disease?
What are the resiliency mechanisms that can allow for a life of opportunity despite abuse, trauma or isolation?
How can social and artistic engagement shape and strengthen brain circuits to allow humans to reach their full potential?
Programs within the Center seek opportunities to build resilient minds at key epochs of our lives, to gather and share lessons and evidence-based opportunities for brain health from the world around us, and to engage creative energies that can both engage and transform the mind by strengthening its foundations.
Our focus is in the following areas:
- Program for Resilient Youth – Studying the factors behind healthy, resilient brain development and early life stress resilience
- Program for Resilient Aging – Demonstrating how genetics and physical, social and community activities contribute to healthy aging
- Program for Resilient Communities – Identifying the brain mechanisms and health consequences associated with aesthetic experience and activities
- Program for Artistic Resilience – Investigating brain dynamics underlying artistic engagement and how these activities can shape and strengthen brain circuits for people to reach their full potential
“A resilient mind is capable of overcoming both neuroscientific and environmental obstacles and can imbue the human spirit with unstoppable courage and conviction. The work of this new Center will help discover and codify the biological, emotional and creative qualities that underpin resilience and will, for the first time, identify the mechanisms and tools that can help millions of people improve their daily lives.”
Co-Founders, The Ryan Licht Sang Bipolar Foundation
- Excellence funds to recruit nationally prominent faculty focused on resiliency research
- Advanced technologies to conduct competitive research studies
- Fellowships to support the best and brightest graduate and postdoctoral trainees
- Funds to pursue advanced research that impacts individuals, health facilities and communities
