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Feeling Scared and Anxious During the COVID-19 Pandemic Is Normal. Here’s Why.

The stress and uncertainty of a crisis can kick your fight-or-flight response into overdrive.

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ICYMI: How Stress Turns Hair Gray

And other neuroscience news for the week of January 20-26, 2020.

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How Poverty Shapes a Child's Mind and Brain

A growing body of research now shows that poverty changes the way children’s brains develop, shrinking parts of the brain essential for memory, planning, and decision-making.

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Your Brain on Guilt and Shame

Shame and guilt feel awful, but they do serve a good purpose: to make you be a better human.

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To Sleep, Perchance to Be Less Hostile

Sleep deprivation puts the brain on high alert, unable to discern a well-natured grin from a threatening scowl.

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The Neurobiology of Family Separation

The prolonged stress a child experiences by being separated from their parents has lasting implications for their mental health and the generations after them.

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Answering Your Questions About Solitary Confinement

Experts in neuroscience and the law answer questions about solitary confinement and how it affects the brain.

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Solitary Confinement: Psychological and Neurobiological Insights into Isolation

This panel discusses the implications of solitary confinement with a neurobiologist, a physician, a lawyer, and an individual held in solitary for 29 years.

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Using Neuroscience to Fight Solitary Confinement in Court and in Print

Jules Lobel has spent years using neuroscience studies in court to argue and prove that solitary confinement should be considered cruel and unusual punishment.

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How Stress Alters the Brain and Behavior

Huda Akil, professor of psychiatry at the University of Michigan, explains the many ways that the stress of chronic isolation, especially solitary confinement, affects the brain and behavior.

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18 min

The Impact of Isolation on the Brain

Richard J. Smeyne discusses recent research that reveals how solitary confinement can cause physical damage to the brain.

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16 min

Making It Visible: Neuroscience Shines a Light on Solitary Confinement

As social animals, our health depends on interactions with others. If placed in isolation, without those connections, our physical and mental health take a hit.

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