Here is an important reason to stay in touch with friends and family: social isolation causes memory and learning deficits and other behavioral changes. Many brain studies have focused on the effects ...

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How will social isolation and months of school on screens affect kids? It’s a common pandemic-parental worry for those of us with children who have still not returned to in-person learning. My concern ...

If you’re lonely or socially isolated, you might have a higher risk of early death, according to a large study. There have been many studies on the associations between social isolation, loneliness ...

Two thousand fifteen was a big year for personalized learning. Nearly every ed-tech pitch to my venture capital fund opened with a black-and-white image of a 1950s one-size-fits-all classroom, and ...

After years of worsening anxiety that kept him from school, Blaine Franzel’s prospects for high school graduation are finally looking up. Blaine, 17, is one of more than a third of U.S. high school ...

In animal models, social isolation triggers memory and learning deficits that are mediated by hyperactivity of the most abundant brain cell, the astrocyte. Importantly, inhibiting this hyperactivity ...