Stronger daily-life affective benefits during solitude in people with higher default mode network functional connectivity
Anastasia Benedyk, Markus Reichert, Oksana Berhe, Alexander Moldavski, Marco Giurgiu, Irina Timm, Ulrich Ebner-Priemer, Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, Heike Tost · FENS Forum 2024
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
ePoster · Neuroscience