This is a YouTube video titled "What Happens When You Neglect Human Connection?" containing a discussion between two speakers about mental health, neuroimaging, and the importance of social connection for mental fitness. The conversation explores challenges faced by modern brains and compares the health effects of loneliness to smoking. The speakers are not identified as Alicia Mackey Huber.
What does neuroimaging tell us about modern brains versus non modern brains?
Modern brains are up against a new set of challenges. As a psychiatrist, a lot of people don't want to ever meet me. And they meet me usually at the worst moments in their life where someone's maybe convinced them they've hit rock bottom. And I'm very handy in your corner. Well, before that, as are all my colleagues. There's a lot we know about mental fitness and prevention of mental health disorders. Just like physical health. Everybody's got some stuff that, you know you should be doing for your body, right? Whether it's your strength and building muscle, your flexibility, working your core. Everybody knows a bunch of exercises whether you're doing them or not. We don't have those same frameworks for our mental health. And so I want to be really specific. Hey, if you don't work on connection, let's look at the data. What happens to us? We're more isolated than ever, Right. They estimate the health effects of being lonely or about the health effects of smoking. Three quarters of a pack a day.
Are you saying that if, if you have friends, people can start smoking and the risk won't change?
No, I don't think that's quite how the number works, but I think it's a good question.
