From City to Countryside, Study Suggests Wisdom Can Protect Against Loneliness
Feb 14, 2021
Over the last few decades, there has been growing concern about loneliness across all ages, particularly in middle-aged and older adults, but a new study suggests one type of intervention that wouldn’t involve relying on other people.
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Feeling isolated or not having an adequate number of meaningful personal connections, is consistently associated with major risk factors for overall health, and there are now many efforts worldwide to address it.
In a recent cross-cultural study, researchers in California and Italy teamed up and found that there was a significant correlation between wisdom and not being lonely.
Tryp Therapeutics Inc.: Tryp Therapeutics Appoints Dr. Joel Castellanos as Clinical Advisor
La Jolla, California (Newsfile Corp. - February 11, 2021) - Tryp Therapeutics (CSE: TRYP) ( Tryp or the Company ) a pharmaceutical company focused on identifying and developing clinical-stage compounds for diseases with high unmet medical needs, announced today it has executed an advisory agreement with Dr. Joel Castellanos, a noted chronic pain physician at UC San Diego Medical Center to join the company s Scientific Advisory Board. He will guide Tryp s clinical development of TRP-8802 for neuropathic pain indications. Dr. Castellanos is the lead author of, Chronic pain and psychedelics: a review and proposed mechanism of action , which was published online in
About a dozen San Diego County school and child care centers will begin monitoring for COVID-19 through wastewater thanks to a partnership between UC San Diego.
County public health officials and UC San Diego are working together on a program to test wastewater at schools and childcare centers that may lead to a plan to get students back in class safely.
Direct exposure to deadly fires increases the risk for mental health disorders
In 2018, a faulty electric transmission line ignited the Camp Fire in Northern California, ultimately consuming 239 square miles and several communities, including the town of Paradise, which was 95 percent destroyed. At least 85 people died.
Structures have been rebuilt, but some things are worse. In a paper published February 2, 2021 in the
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, scientists at University of California San Diego, with colleagues elsewhere, describe chronic mental health problems among some residents who experienced the Camp Fire in varying degrees.
Direct exposure to large-scale fires significantly increased the risk for mental health disorders, particularly post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression, the scientists wrote.