COVID-19 lockdowns are not the leading cause of extreme loneliness and psychological distress

KNX Radio, Oct. 17, 2022 (Audio)

COVID-19 blew up the ‘epidemic of loneliness’

Psychology Today , Sept. 2, 2020

Karen Rook

Shedding light on loneliness

Professor Karen Rook studies relationships and how they affect one’s health and happiness. Her research has shed light on the psychological toll of loneliness on the elderly.

Patient Project volunteers work on an arts-and-crafts activity with a resident at Irvine’s Inn at Woodbridge senior living community.

Alleviating elder isolation

UCI undergraduate club’s mission is to foster connections in senior centers

Sholeh Wolpé, UCI writer-in-residence

Finding Your Inner Firefly

UCI writer-in-residence shares how literature has illuminated her life’s journey

Statewide restrictions during the pandemic not linked to worse mental health

News-Medical.net, Oct. 17, 2022

Many people lost sense of time during COVID pandemic

Futurity, Aug. 24, 2022

Alison Holman

UCI study examines distorted time perception during pandemic

May be an important risk factor to target with early interventions

Dr. Anju Hurria, who in July became the inaugural wellness officer at UCI’s Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute

Healers’ Health

Three questions with Dr. Anju Hurria, UCI’s inaugural Samueli Wellness Officer

Tyrus Miller for UCI Magazine, Fall 2021

Out of the Darkness

Originally published in fall 2021 issue of UCI Magazine Dante Alighieri closed Inferno, his poetic vision of hell and the first canticle of his 14th-century epic The Divine Comedy, with a luminous line: “And then we came out again to see the stars.” For Dante, the exit path is poetry itself – he seeks consolation […]