the NEUROSCIENCE of RESILIENCE

Resilience isn’t a slogan, a mindset, or a motivational poster. It’s a neural advantage — a set of trainable circuits that determine whether an athlete spirals or stabilises, reacts or responds, fractures or adapts. Once you understand that resilience lives in the HPA axis, the ACC, the salience network, and the dopamine‑serotonin‑noradrenaline triad, the whole conversation shifts. You stop talking about “mental toughness” and start talking about neural readiness, network switching, and stress‑system efficiency. That’s where modern hockey is heading.