According to the sociodevelopmental model of Morgan et al. [ 3], the exposure to negative life events can impact on brain development (in particular on the dopaminergic system), as well as on personal sensitivity to stress, inducing a state of persistent vulnerability to psychosis (consisting of social bias, psychotic-like experiences and affective disorders).
"Don't tell me that our persistent vulnerability to racism has suddenly disappeared, and that we now live in a color-blind society," he said in a sermonesque address to the N.A.A.C.P. last July.
Given the sub-Saharan region's persistent vulnerability, Mr. Watkins added, the new findings and the prospect of further global warming could be "early warning signs for an unprecedented and catastrophic reversal in human development".
A year after the storm, the food line is one of many reminders of the persistent vulnerability of New York City's public housing and the hundreds of thousands of people who live in the projects.
The persistent vulnerability is not limited to remote regions of developing countries, but extends to the city centers of places as cosmopolitan as Portland, Ore., and Istanbul, both of which face looming seismic shocks.
Even as government regulators strengthen oversight by requiring public reporting of breaches and imposing heavy fines, experts on medical security said the Stanford breach spotlighted the persistent vulnerability posed by legions of outside contractors that gain access to private data.
In order to escape this persistent vulnerability to skepticism, the imagination theorist would have to deny not just that dream beliefs, but also that wonderings, thoughts, affirmation etc. are real instances of their kind.
Hence this process of 'incentive sensitization' is proposed to underlie the transition to compulsive drug use and subsequent persistent vulnerability to relapse which occurs in drug addicted individuals [40], [41].
