Telomeres, the caps of eukaryotic chromosomes, control chromosome stability and cellular senescence, but aging and exposure to chronic stress are suspected to cause attrition of telomere length. We investigated the effect of social isolation on telomere length in the highly social and intelligent African Grey parrot (Psittacus erithacus erithacus). Our study population consisted of single-house...

In response to the Covid‑19 health crisis, French government has imposed various measures, referred as social-distancing including a lockdown with primary objective of reducing face-to-face interactions between people in order limit spread virus. This paper seeks determine if measures and lead social isolation for certain have an impact on people’s well-being. First, it reveals that feelings su...

To maximize their impact, socially responsible households can invest responsibly (SRI), consume (SRC), or do both. The key question of this paper is, which mix SRI and SRC leads to a desired impact with the lowest loss utility for households. In closed micro-economic model, we show that both strategies yield symmetric proportional behavior. For individual household, however, one strategy domina...

UNLABELLED Social support has a positive influence on the course of a depression and social housing of rats could provide an animal model for studying the neurobiological mechanisms of social support. Male and female rats were subjected to chronic footshock stress for 3 weeks and pair-housing of rats was used to mimic social support. Rats were isolated or housed with a partner of the opposite s...

Abstract Sexual and gender minority (SGM) older adults are at greater risk for dementia social isolation compared to their heterosexual peers. Lack of an available caregiver is major concern. Yet, most interventions date have been designed primarily caregiver-care recipient dyads or solely caregivers. A pilot study evaluated a 9-session virtual program address isolation, physical functioning qu...

Postweaning social isolation reduces the amplitude of the daily variation of CLOCK protein in the brain and induces lower reproductive activity. Gonadotropin-inhibitory hormone (GnIH) acts as an inhibitor in the reproductive system and has been linked to stress. Social isolation has been shown to lower neuronal activity of GnIH-expressing neurons in the dorsomedial hypothalamus (DMH). The exact...

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Research has identified a subset of young people who feel unable to engage in mainstream education. Given the hard-to-reach nature this group, their views on what caused isolation from others have received little focus previous literature. The present study aimed explore experiences and seen within an inner London Pupil Referral Unit were extremely socially withdrawn attend They asked they beli...

This introduction establishes the main perspectives of special issue on relationship between loneliness and nerds. We argue that stereotype lonely nerd is becoming increasingly reductive in technological age at turn 21st century, which being a not only perceived as cool but nerds also occupy central positions power. stress transnational perspective issue. While majority studies fictional repres...