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.

Neha Gujjula (left), a third-year neurobiology major, and Kaitlin To, a third-year ecology and evolutionary biology major, are co-presidents of the Brain Exercise Initiative’s UC Irvine chapter.

Use it or lose it

Student members of the Brain Exercise Initiative work to improve cognition among residents of senior living facilities

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