Isolation Brain

Isolation Brain

Top of Mind with Julie Rose

Biden Inauguration, Isolation Brain, Gun Control

Episode: Biden Inauguration, Isolation Brain, Gun Control

  • Jan 21, 2021 9:00 pm
  • 15:53 mins

Since COVID-19 started, most of us have spent less time with other people outside our households. Is it possible our brains are changing with the isolation? To answer this question, University of Pennsylvania psychiatry professor Alexander Stahn led a team of scientists to study the brains of people who spent a year in one of the loneliest places on the planet–a research station in Antarctica.