Emotional regulation is a child’s ability to understand, express, and manage their feelings in healthy ways. This skill ...

Loneliness/social isolation isn’t just a transient emotion or situation, it’s turned into a global crisis with serious public health consequences. In 2023, then–US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, ...

Why your brain craves connection—and what happens without it Medically reviewed by Steven Gans, MD Social isolation can increase feelings of depression and anxiety. People who are socially isolated ...

This week, I realized that I am lonely. The loneliness did not come on all of a sudden. It crept in slowly—as friends moved away, as I quit a club that I’d been a part of for nearly a decade, and as I ...

As teens spend less time with their friends in person, scientists are beginning to uncover how isolation may affect the developing “social brain." Here’s what we know—and when parents should be ...