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Isolation Causes Loneliness. What Else Can It Do To Our Bodies?
Podcast interview with APS Member Julianne Holt-Lunstad. There’s a cost to staying home, too. Julianne Holt-Lunstad, a neuroscientist and social psychologist at Brigham Young University, explains the toll that social isolation can take. … Listen
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Scientists Pin Down a Link Between Happiness and 1 Daily Activity
Even under normal circumstances, it’s tough to get motivated to bike across town or visit a museum when you’re feeling low. But that’s exactly what you should do, scientists say. Exploring the unknown has a
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Why Your Employees’ Mental Health Should Be Top Priority
On a global scale, more than 264 million people struggle with depression. In the U.S., nearly 50 million adults had experienced some form of mental illness in 2018, and in Canada, 1 in 5 adults suffer from mental stress. I’ve found
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How the News Changes the Way We Think and Behave
Alison Holman was working on a fairly ordinary study of mental health across the United States. Then tragedy struck. On 15 April 2013, as hundreds of runners streaked past the finish line at the annual
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Social Isolation’s High Physical and Psychological Toll
When Newton, Mass., closed its schools in mid-March to help stop the spread of coronavirus, Nataly Kogan was thrilled. No more rushing to get breakfast. Her 15-year-old daughter, Mia, could sleep in. The two did
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Bring Back the Laugh Track
Right now, I’m imagining your laughter. Stephen Colbert had meant that as a joke when he addressed the comment to the camera in a mostly-empty studio, during the brief period when late night TV taped in their normal
