Kerri Miller brought her Rural Voice town hall series to Wadena, Minn., on Sept. 15, 2025, at Drastic Brewing, to talk about social isolation and how the need for more mental healthcare is impacting ...

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 ...

That was the question put to a group of Salem high school students earlier this fall, and the consensus was that someone around age 56 was probably old. But that image melted away when they were ...

I recently listened to an inspiring interview with Vivek Murthy, the current U. S. surgeon general. Murthy has been instrumental in both the Barack Obama and Joe Biden administrations, influencing ...

This summer marks the 25th anniversary of Harvard sociologist Robert Putnam’s Bowling Alone, the groundbreaking book that first sounded alarms about America's growing social disconnection. Putnam ...

Hannah Arendt has been on my mind a lot lately. The 20th-century German-Jewish political philosopher escaped the Nazi Holocaust, and won regard as one of the world’s greatest public intellectuals at a ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. 4 The survey did not inquire about what kind of loneliness participants felt and ...