ABSTRACT
Neuroscience has come a long way in being able to identify and pinpoint brain functioning at various stages and locations within the brain. Thus, while the literatures on ecology and neuroscience have developed independently there is a clear intersect between the two. While U. Bronfenbrenner's ecological perspective has been widely acknowledged and adopted in the social sciences since the 1970s, neuroscience, along with epigenetics, have also advanced our understanding of human capability and adaptation since the 2000s. According to the ecological approach 'resilience is based on the complex and bidirectional transactions between individuals and their context'. Throughout the late 1970s and 1980s, Bronfenbrenner proposed the model Ecological Systems Theory, which views human development as an interaction between individuals and their environments. Humans, and particularly adolescents, are intensely social beings. Magnetic resonance imaging studies show differences between adolescents and adults in parts of the social brain.
