Dynamic Multi-System Resilience in Human Aging/SanneGijzel

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Notes by user Sanne Gijzel (Radboud Univ.) for Dynamic Multi-System Resilience in Human Aging

Post-meeting Reflection

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Presentation highlights

Open questions that came up

How your perspective changed

Impact on your own work

e.g. the discussion on [A] that we are having reminds me of [B] conference/[C] initiative/[D] funding call-for-proposal/[E] research group

During the first day, although the talks were very different, they very nicely complemented each other. It is amazing to see that we are all adopting slightly different approaches to investigating resilience in human aging but that they can all be placed in the larger framework of resilience of complex dynamical systems. We are all pioneering in this area and only sharing our struggles and recent insights was already very valuable, at least in my experience.

During the second day, I began seeing that we are working along 2 parallel lines:

Finding ways to quantify resilience / resiliencies
Increasing our understanding of the dynamics of the complex system in terms of resilience

Some reflections:

- I liked Alfons' idea of making real-life examples of "Resilience is ........" in the form of a short narrative / artwork / graphical illustration / equations. I agree that these can be very helpful to increase our understanding of resilience and involve more people (e.g. clinicians) in the resilience thinking and discourse.

- Marcel commented that for humans, it's clear that there are alternative stable states in health, but we do not know what are the precise perturbations and positive feedbacks causing the transition. To increase our understanding about this, I think we need to start with making mechanistic models. We can use these mechanistic models to generate new hypotheses.

- Ingrid pointed out the difference between acute stressors (perturbations, e.g. a stimulus-response test) and slow stressors (drivers, e.g. aging).

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Reference Materials

Title	Author name	Source name	Year	Citation count From Scopus. Refreshed every 5 days.	Page views
Early-warning signals for critical transitions	Marten Scheffer, Jordi Bascompte, William A. Brock, Victor Brovkin, Stephen R. Carpenter, Vasilis Dakos, Hermann Held, Egbert H. Van Nes, Max Rietkerk, George Sugihara	Nature	2009	2,153	30
Dynamical Resilience Indicators in Time Series of Self-Rated Health Correspond to Frailty Levels in Older Adults	Sanne M.W. Gijzel, Ingrid A. Van De Leemput, Marten Scheffer, Mattia Roppolo, Marcel G.M. Olde Rikkert, René J.F. Melis	Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences	2017	30	7
Critical slowing down as early warning for the onset and termination of depression3				0	12