Figure 2.

Model showing the likely developmental trends of resilience, showing the maintenance or recovery of mental health during and after exposure to significant adverse event results from a dynamic process of adaptation to the given life circumstances (gray boxes), where global reorganization (purple line) and mechanisms of compensation (yellow line) across the whole brain network are in charge of maintaining optimal functioning and efficiency (green line) in relation to cognitive ability and mental health. However, increased or sustained exposure to adverse life events or inadequate network reorganization will lead to exhaustion or collapse of the network (black dashed line), which manifests as divergent lifespan patterns or breakdown of functional responses leading to loss of mental health.