Explore invisible grief — the silent weight of social isolation and personal loss that often goes unseen, yet deeply affects identity, connection, and emotional well-being.
#Grief #MentalHealth #SocialIsolation #Loss #Healing #Awareness
Read here: https://www.mayabutalid.com/invisible-grief-social-isolation-personal-loss/
We Don’t Have a Mental Health Crisis—We Have a Disconnection Crisis
Rising anxiety and burnout are often treated as individual problems, but what if they are signals of something larger? This article explores how modern life has drifted out of alignment with human rhythms, relationships, and cycles—and why reconnecting with those foundations may be as important as treating symptoms.
Why Are We So Lonely? A Modern Disconnection
Explore the growing epidemic of loneliness! We delve into the reasons behind our increasing isolation, examining the impact of technology and societal shifts on human connection. Discover how modern life disconnects us from what truly matters: community.
#loneliness #socialisolation #technology #community #mentalhealth #relationships #humanconnection #modernlife #emotionalwellbeing #wellnesslifestyle #wellnesswarrior #societalchange
This is a fascinating analysis about the decline of pubs and what can be done about it.
https://laurenleek.substack.com/p/britain-lost-14000-third-places-they
If I have understood it correctly, it is rent. Not quite in the straightforward way that landlords are being charged too much rent to make the business profitable, though there is that. Instead, the ultimate owners are really property developers. They load up the pubs with debt to finance their purchase. When the pub can't pay the debt, they flip it for more rentable land use, ie property development. It is the financialisation of land that is once again at issue.
In the latest issue of Changing Populations, we report on a study by CG member Dr Jo Hale from the University of St Andrews, which has found that reducing social isolation protects the brain in later life.
Head to section 8 to find out more: https://sway.cloud.microsoft/WzAYgcw05ELXCdXJ?ref=Link
#ageing #cognition #socialisolation #loneliness #brainhealth #publichealth #gerontology #Alzheimers #demography #mentalhealth #laterlife #StAndrews #healthyageing #neuroscience #wellbeing
Oxytocin is a neuropeptide that can promote or inhibit affiliative social behaviors. Recent evidence suggests that these diverse effects are mediated by distinct oxytocin receptor-expressing neurons. An outstanding question is whether these behavioral effects are also driven by distinct or overlapping populations of oxytocin-producing neurons. The paraventricular nucleus (PVN) of the hypothalamus is a major source of oxytocin and sends projections to the mesolimbic dopamine system and extended amygdala. Previous work found that social defeat stress increased oxytocin neuron activity in the anterior PVN (aPVN) but not posterior PVN (pPVN). We reduced oxytocin synthesis with antisense morpholino oligonucleotides in either anterior or posterior PVN in California mice (Peromyscus californicus), a strong model system for studying effects of social stress on brain function and behavior. Antisense morpholinos in aPVN had no effect on behavior in unstressed females but increased social approach and reduced social vigilance in females exposed to social defeat stress. In pPVN, antisense morpholinos reduced social approach in unstressed male and female California mice. We then used OxtCre mice to compare electrophysiological profiles of oxytocin in aPVN and pPVN with a population of oxytocin neurons in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST). Oxytocin neurons in aPVN and BNST had higher post-synaptic events and responded more strongly to current injections than oxytocin neurons in pPVN, though they had similar excitatory and inhibitory input balance at the observed resting membrane potential. These findings shed light on to functional and physiological heterogeneity of PVN oxytocin neurons. Our results suggest that context-dependent behavioral effects of oxytocin are mediated by different populations of oxytocin neurons.
If ever there was a group that piqued my interest... alas, it's on #facebook, key enabler of #fascisim, #genocide, #hatespeech, mis- and dis-information, #surveillancecapitalism, and #socialisolation, to name a few.
Nope.
Evelyn McCann
Global News BC
Global News
The Pagan Grove
Biohacking Pathway
A mixture of periodicals
Roberto von Archimboldi
Centre for Population Change
CD Castillo
Chris Geoghooligan ✊