Genomic and physiological resilience in extreme environments are associated with a secure attachment style.

ABSTRACT: Understanding individual capability to adjust to protracted confinement and isolation may inform adaptive plasticity and disease vulnerability/resilience, and may have long-term implications for operations requiring prolonged presence in distant and restricted environments. Individual coping depends on many different factors encompassing psychological dispositional traits, endocrine reactivity and their underlying molecular mechanisms (e.g. gene expression). A positive view of self and others (secure attachment style) has been proposed to promote individual resilience under extreme environmental conditions. Here, we tested this hypothesis and investigated the underlying molecular mechanisms in 13 healthy volunteers confined and isolated for 12 months in a research station located 1670 km a

SUBMITTER: Caputo V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7283351 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature