Latest Psychological resilience Stories
CLEVELAND, April 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Resilience Capital Partners ("Resilience") is pleased to announce that Steel Parts Manufacturing, Inc. ("Steel Parts"), a portfolio company of The Resilience Fund II, LP, has been acquired by Monomoy Capital Partners. Steel Parts is a leading manufacturer and supplier of close-tolerance precision metal stampings and components used primarily in automatic transmission systems for automotive and heavy-duty markets. The sale of Steel Parts generates...
NEW YORK, April 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- "As crises unfold, there are successive watershed moments that determine success or failure, but the final determinant is the resilience of the organization and the individuals who lead it," says Davia Temin, CEO of reputation and crisis management consultancy Temin and Company. "Resilience is really the X factor that allows us to turn defeat into triumph, over time." Ms. Temin will deliver the keynote address, "Resilience:...
A new National Research Council report presents a 20-year road map for increasing U.S. resilience to earthquakes, including a major earthquake that could strike a highly populated area. The report was mostly written prior to the March 11 earthquake in Japan, but the committee of experts who authored it noted that the Japanese experience is a reminder of the devastation that can occur even in a country acknowledged as a leader in implementing earthquake-resilience measures.In recent decades,...
BRUSSELS and HERAKLION, Greece, March 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- - "If you Cannot Measure it, you Cannot Improve it!" - Lord Kelvin - EU Agency Presents the First Comprehensive Report on Metrics and Measurements in Network and Service Resilience, Uncovering a Lack of Standards & Coherency Business and governments are all reliant on secure networks, but how do you measure the resilience of these networks? The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) has...
The hippocampus, a brain region implicated in memory and interpreting environmental contexts, has been the focus of a controversy in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).Early MRI studies suggested that the volume of the hippocampus was reduced in some people with chronic PTSD. This observation was interpreted as suggesting that stress produced atrophy within the hippocampus, consistent with a body of research conducted in animals. Supporting this hypothesis, it appears that the same region...
The psychological impact of natural disasters such as the Japan earthquake can be revealed in the way people inherently respond to unpredictable situations, according to a psychology expert at Queen Mary, University of London.Dr Magda Osman, Psychology Lecturer at Queen Mary, University of London, and author of Controlling Uncertainty: Decision-making and Learning in Complex Worlds, said the disaster had a devastating immediate effect on tens of thousands of people in Japan but the true...
(Ivanhoe Newswire) "“ Adolescence is usually characterized as a tumultuous time. Previous research has pointed to the immature brain as a major cause, but now, this unique study reveals that some brain changes associated with adolescence may not be driving teens towards risky behavior but may actually reflect a decrease in susceptibility to peer pressure.Subcortical neural systems associated with emotional responses are believed to mature earlier than the higher cortical areas that regulate...
A new study in Honduras suggests that climate-related weather disasters may sometimes actually provide opportunities for the rural poor to improve their lives.Researchers found that that the poorest inhabitants of a small village in northeastern Honduras increased their land wealth and their share of earnings relative to more wealthy residents after Hurricane Mitch devastated their village in October 1998.The findings offer a glimmer of hope from widespread concerns that the world's poor will...
Spill caused significant psychological impact even to nearby communities not directly touched by oilThe explosion and fire on a BP-licensed oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010 had huge environmental and economic effects, with millions of gallons of oil leaking into the water for more than five months. It also had significant psychological impact on people living in coastal communities, even in those areas that did not have direct oil exposure, according to researchers at the...
Concordia study finds leisure time helps grandparents maintain bonds with adult grandchildrenA new study has confirmed an old adage: A family that plays together stays together. Researchers from Concordia University and Wilfrid Laurier University examined the ways grandparents can maintain close ties with their adult grandchildren. True to the old maxim, recreation emerged as the glue sealing intergenerational bonds."Leisure is vital in the formation of bonds that last from generation to...
