Isolated kids become lonely, unsociable adults: Research suggests social isolation in childhood damages little-known brain circuit that is responsible for regulating social behavior in adulthood - Thriveworks

A new study “A prefrontal-paraventricular thalamus circuit requires juvenile social experience to regulate adult sociability in mice” suggests that social isolation in childhood has a harmful impact on adult brain functioning and more specifically, in an area of the brain that’s responsible for regulating social behavior. In addition to bringing attention to the impact that today’s isolated world might have on children in their adulthood...

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