Research on
social isolation during childhood has found associations with school achievement, future relationships and adult mental health.
Harry Harlow's infamous studies on maternal deprivation and
social isolation during the 1950s and 1960s also explored early bonds.
A study shows, for the first time, how these functional impairments arise:
Social isolation during early life prevents the cells that make up the brain's white matter from maturing and producing the right amount of myelin, the fatty «insulation» on nerve fibers that helps them transmit long - distance messages within the brain.
Not exact matches
Unfortunately, many parents face obstacles — such as those caused by stress, language barriers, geographic and
social isolation, poverty, and their own adverse childhood experiences that leave them without a positive parenting model — that impacts their ability to fully support their baby's development
during these critical years.
To accommodate evolving parenting styles with the goal of decreasing the
social isolation of parents, museums, libraries, swimming pools, and even vacation destinations have changed
during the last ten years.
«Frailty combined with
social isolation can mean that older adults still living at home have nowhere to turn
during emergencies,» said John Hirdes, a researcher in the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences at the University of Waterloo.
Additional envronmental exposures (for example,
social stress and
isolation during childhood, drug abuse, etc.) then further increase the risk or trigger the onset of psychosis and schizophrenia.
Arrests
during adolescence are associated with
social isolation, low educational attainment, and continued system - involvement.
The factor most strongly predictive of homelessness for veterans was
social isolation, specifically low levels of support
during the first year after discharge and being unmarried.
The researchers found that these law students developed normal symptom responses prior to law school, but
during law school demonstrated significantly elevated levels of obsessive - compulsive behavior, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anxiety, hostility, phobic anxiety, paranoid ideation, and psychoticism (
social alienation and
isolation).
During their first decade of life, study members were assessed for exposure to 3 adverse psychosocial experiences: socioeconomic disadvantage, maltreatment, and
social isolation.
Main Exposures
During their first decade of life, study members were assessed for exposure to 3 adverse psychosocial experiences: socioeconomic disadvantage, maltreatment, and
social isolation.
Unfortunately, many parents face obstacles — such as those caused by stress, language barriers, geographic and
social isolation, poverty, and their own adverse childhood experiences that leave them without a positive parenting model — that impacts their ability to fully support their baby's development
during these critical years.
Social ostracism or self - imposed
isolation my also become a more important determinant of peer rejection
during adolescence than at younger ages.