Tag: Social isolation

Mindfulness training reduces loneliness and increases social contact in a randomized controlled trial

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Author: Lindsay, Emily K.; Young, Shinzen; Brown, Kirk Warren; Smyth, Joshua M.; Creswell, J. David Description: Loneliness and social isolation are a growing public health concern, yet there are few evidence-based interventions for mitigating these social risk factors. Accumulating evidence suggests that mindfulness interventions can improve social-relationship processes. However, the active ingredients of mindfulness training underlying these improvements are unclear. Developing mindfulness-specific skills-namely, (i) monitoring present-moment experiences with (ii) an orientation of acceptance-may change the way people perceive and relate toward others. We predicted that developing openness and acceptance toward…

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Early-life social experiences in mice affect emotional behaviour and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis function

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Author: Ros-Simo, C.; Valverde, O. Description: RATIONALE: Early-life stressful experiences are associated to alterations in behavioural responses and development of psychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases. In rodents, individual housing is considered as a stressful condition whilst enriched environment can protect against stress and its negative consequences. Neuroendocrine responses to stress can also be altered by early-life experiences and seem to contribute to behavioural alterations induced by changes in housing conditions. OBJECTIVE: To develop an improved procedure of social isolation throughout development (from pre-adolescence to adulthood) in CD1 mice and to elucidate…

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