#1321 Emily Towner: Social Isolation and Social Media Use in Adolescents

Hello, everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricard Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Emily Towner. She's a postdoc in co cognitive neuroscience at Caltech. Her research focuses on evaluence and the brain. Her interests include loneliness, anxiety, mental health, and social media, and today we're going to talk about How Iзоlejшan effects адалесенці, диджитал інтереш, селф дискложі. and the effects of social media on mental health, if any, we're going to discuss that. So, Emily, welcome to the show. It's a pleasure to have you.

Thanks, thanks for having me. So um I mean starting with isolation and how it affects adolescence, uh let me ask you first a more basic question here. So What constitutes isolation? I mean, when can we say that someone is experiencing isolation.

Mm. Yeah, it's a really good question actually. And something that we had to kind of define when I was studying this during my PhD because people think about Isolation. And loneliness. Three.

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