title: Resilience and psychiatric epidemiology: Implications for a conceptual framework.
abstract: Kalisch and colleagues present a conceptual framework for the study of resilience, using a neurobiological approach. The present commentary examines issues arising for the study of resilience from epidemiological data, which suggest that resilience is most likely a normative function that may operate as a kind of psychological immune system. The implications of the epidemiological data on the development of a neurobiological theory of resilience are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Christchurch Health and Development Study,University of Otago,Christchurch School of Medicine and Health Sciences,Christchurch,New Zealand. joseph.boden@otago.ac.nz http://www.otago.ac.nz/christchurch/research/healthdevelopment/otago014217.html 
authors.forename: Joseph M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Boden
authors.affiliation: Christchurch Health and Development Study,University of Otago,Christchurch School of Medicine and Health Sciences,Christchurch,New Zealand. geraldine.mcleod@otago.ac.nz http://www.otago.ac.nz/christchurch/departments/psychmed/ourpeople/otago036449.html
authors.forename: Geraldine F H
authors.initials: GF
authors.lastname: McLeod
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D055500:Resilience, Psychological