In Eleanor Rigby, the Beatles lament about loneliness and isolation and challenge us to “look at all the lonely people”. In this episode, Dr. Virani invites Dr. Dolores Malaspina and Dr. Luca Pauselli to explore social exclusion and insolation and its effects on mental health through case studies.  Join us on the first episode of a new season of Finding Our Voice covering the social determinants of mental health.  

In this episode

Jumbo, the elephant, and isolation of caged animals

DSM-5 code 62.4

Social isolation and exclusion during the pandemic

Loneliness and schizophrenia study published in Psychiatric Research

Loneliness and its effect on the body

Biological pathways and the social determinants of mental health.

Dr. Dolores Malaspina is the chair of the research and education workgroup of the current Presidential taskforce on Social Determinants of Mental Health chaired by Dr. Dilip Jeste.  Dr. Malaspina directs the Psychosis Program called Critical Connections at the Icahn SM Mount Sinai where she is a Professor of Psychiatry, Neuroscience, and Genetics & Genomics and the Vice-Chair for DEI. She was previously the Steckler Professor and Chairman of the NYU/Bellevue psychiatry departments, where she founded and directed a multidisciplinary program for research and training (Institute of Social and Psychiatric Initiatives- InSPIRES).

Dr. Luca Pauselli is a PGY3 in the Mount Sinai Morningside/West psychiatry residency program. Luca completed medical school and a residency in Italy.

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