With the pandemic state of emergency coming to a close, and with flu season now flu-and-COVID-19 season, experts are shifting their focus to what we can learn from the experience and apply to future ...

Social experience sculpts the teenage brain. Source: iStock/pixelfit Humans are fundamentally social, and perhaps never more so than in adolescence when hanging out with friends is the top priority ...

COVID-19 lockdowns prompted countless American seniors to become socially isolated. Now, new research finds that many have still not fully rejoined society. More than half of older adults still spend ...

Editor’s note: This is the second of two parts on the impact of isolation and loneliness. Michele Wentzel can tell when one of her three... Editor’s note: This is the first of two stories on ...

Every Friday, the Ann Arbor Happy Hour event brings groups of seniors together to dance. It's not just a fun night at a club, but a way to fight the adverse health effects of isolation. The patrons at ...

Early in the pandemic, there was a flurry of articles drawing parallels between the isolation of astronauts and the struggles of social distancing. As I wrote at the time, the two experiences are not ...

The researchers set out to investigate whether exposure to acute isolation – three days alone in its home cage – would cause mice to increase so-called ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs), as well as ...