Topic: affective well-being

Social drinking is one of the most common reasons for drinking among young people. Excessive alcohol consumption alters affective and reward brain function, and entails risks for mental health problems. To understand of the effect of early social drinking on real-life and neural reward functions is of particular importance. 378 community-based young healthy social drinkers (13 to 28 years) took part in a 7-day Ecological momentary assessment protocol using GPS-triggered smartphone-based e-dairies with 9 to 23 prompts per day to rate momentary affective well-being. Only self-identified current

Social isolation and loneliness pose major societal challenges whose global spread has been accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, finding accessible and effective resilience strategies that mitigate the negative affective impact of social isolation on mental health is a top priority.In a cohort study with 317 young adults (mean[SD] age, 23.08 [2.83] years; 181 females [57.09%]), utilizing accelerometry, electronic diaries, and functional neuroimaging, we examined the effectiveness of physical activity in offsetting affective loss due to social isolation in everyday life and investig