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The Living Lab is featured in Discoveries Magazine! This unique space at the Belmont Senior Village Living near campus connects UC San Diego researchers with older adults, fostering collaboration & driving innovation in aging research.

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2025

• Public Lecture "Decoding the Dark Side of the Human Genome: How Ancient Viruses Shape Aging" with new faculty member, Dr. Michael Corley available on UCTV. Watch it here.
• The Living Lab is featured in Discoveries Magazine! This unique space at the Belmont Senior Village Living near campus connects UC San Diego researchers with older adults, fostering collaboration & driving innovation in aging research. Read it here.
• A paper based on data from the SAGE study, “The dynamic association between emotional functioning, quality of life, and subjective cognitive concerns in a large community-based sample of middle-aged and older adults,”  has been accepted for publication in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. This study leverages SAGE’s robust dataset to explore key connections between emotional health, quality of life, and cognitive concerns in aging populations. Read the full article here.
• Dr. Alison Moore quoted in New York Times article "What a $20,000 Longevity Clinic Really Buys You." Read the full article here.

2024

• Public Lecture "Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disparities Among Black, White, and Filipino Women: What's Fat Got to Do with It?"  with Associate Director Dr. Maria Rosario "Happy" G. Araneta is now available to watch on UCTV.
• Public Lecture "Can We Avoid Cognitive Decline as we Age" with Associate Director Dr. Sarah Banks is now available to watch on UCTV.
• Dr. Anthony Molina's co-authored study "How Trauma Gets Under the Skin" featured in UC San Diego Today. Read it here.
• Public Lecture "Understanding Aging in the Real World: What Wearable Devices Reveal About How We Age Differently" with Dr. Benjamin Smarr now available to watch on UCTV. Watch it here.
• A new publication of Drs. Alison Moore & Benjamin Han's research in the Journal of General Internal Medicine: "Experiences of Aging with Opioid Use Disorder and Comorbidity in Opioid Treatment Programs: A Qualitative Analysis." Read it here.
• Stein Director Dr. Alison Moore quoted in the New York Times article "The 7 Keys to Longevity" Read it here.

2023

• Dr. Anthony Lim's talk "The Miraculous Healing Power of Food" Lee Tuh-Fuh And Ruby Lee Wang Zu-Ming Endowed Lecture available to watch on UCTV.
• Dr. Molina leads multi-disciplinary project selected to receive funding from Wellcome Leap’s $60 million Dynamic Resilience program. Read more about the grant.
• Videos from our Healthy Longevity Symposium are available now on UCTV. See them here.
• Dr. Molina presents "Healthy Longevity: A Scientist's Perspective" on UCTV. Watch it here.
• Dr. Alison Moore interviewed by American Medical Association on "Cannabis side effects for senior and older adult patients" Watch it here.
• Dr. Anthony Molina's latest paper "Are Skeletal Muscles the Key to Treating Heart Failure?" featured in UC San Diego Health Sciences blog.

2022

• Wisdom Engendered: Study Finds Men and Women Have Different Strengths,
  See also ScienceDaily, Neuroscience News and Med India
• How Amtrak Trains Became One Retired Traveler's Sanctuary During the Pandemic, Travel + Leisure
• How to live longer: Four key personality traits that will boost your odds of living to 100, Express UK
• 11 Things People Who Live to 100 Have in Common, Reader’s Digest, features Dilip Jeste, MD

2021

• Psychology Today Blog
• Can Seven Questions Determine How Wise You Are?, features Dilip Jeste, MD
  See also Insider, Yahoo! News, Well+Good, Psychology Today, GQ España, Science Blog and Neuroscience News
• Seven factors that make you wise, Sveriges Television (Swedish national public television)
• New Study Shows Loneliness Is Highest Among Certain Age Workers Than Others, Forbes, features Tanya Nguyen, PhD
• Why It’s Good to Be Old, Even in a Pandemic, The New York Times, cites research at the Stein Institute for Research on Aging
• 7 traits of people who live to 100-years-old, The Ladders, features Dilip Jeste, MD
• Older workers share how to achieve a long, fulfilling career, Seattle Times, features Dilip Jeste, MD
• How Does Your Brain Process Emotions? Answer Could Help Address Loneliness Epidemic, features Jyoti Mishra, PhD, and Dilip Jeste, MD. See also GEN, Business Insider Mexico, Jerusalem Post, Science Alert, KPBS, 10News, San Diego 7 and El Confidencial
• Ageism: The Brain Strikes Back, Cerebrum, The Dana Foundation, feature Tanya Nguyen, PhD, and Dilip Jeste, MD
• Don’t want to retire? Here’s how to maintain a fulfilling career into your 80s and beyond. The Washington Post features Dilip Jeste, MD
• Loneliness Is the Quiet Health Epidemic Impacting Your Heart, Brain, and Longevity, Good Housekeeping, features Dilip Jeste, MD
• Examining psychiatric consequences of COVID-19, Medical Xpress, features Dilip Jeste, MD
• Every Thanksgiving, my mental health strategy is recalling memorable, personal moments, The Washington Post features Dilip Jeste, MD

2020

• Discoveries: Wisdom is Transmissible
• SD Seniors Community Starts 'No Seniors Alone Initiative', Patch, cites our research
• Mather Institute features our study
• Nur ich, allein, Der Spiegel, features Ellen Lee, MD (English translation)
• How to be wiser during troubled times, TODAY, features Dilip Jeste, MD
• How Exercising Self-compassion Can Boost Our Well-being, Thrive Global, features Dilip Jeste, MD with Scott LaFee
• Researchers uncover targets for reducing loneliness, including aspects of wisdom, Healio, features Dilip Jeste, MD. See also Forbes
• Study: Loneliness Highest in the 20s and Lowest in the 60s, features Dilip Jeste, MD, and Tanya Nguyen, PhD. See also U.S. News & World Report, HealthDay, Drugs.com, ScienceBlog, Medical Xpress, The Ladders, San Diego 7, UCSD Guardian and KPBS
• Opinion: Voting—and Voting Wisely—Are Acts of Practical Wisdom in Society, Times of San Diego, authored by Dilip Jeste, MD
• From San Diego to Italy, Study Suggests Wisdom Can Protect Against Loneliness, features Dilip Jeste, MD, and David Brenner, MD, vice chancellor, UC San Diego Health Sciences
  See also The Science Times, Insider, MSN, Medical Xpress, Business Insider, The Ladders and Brinkwire
• Talking Alone: Researchers Use Artificial Intelligence Tools to Predict Loneliness, features Ellen Lee, MD, Varsha Badal, PhD, and Dilip Jeste, MD. See also New Atlas, Science Blog, The Medical News, FOX 5, Patch, Med India and Yahoo! News
• A reason to look forward to aging, The Observer, features Dilip Jeste, MD
• For nursing home residents, COVID-19 sparks an epidemic of loneliness, USC Center for Health Journalism features Dilip Jeste, MD
• What Are The Health Effects Of Long-Term Social Distancing?, Inverse, features Dilip Jeste, MD. See also Sunday Edit
• How older amateur athletes are staying fit through the pandemic, The Washington Post features Dilip Jeste, MD
• Resilience in a Time of National and Personal Tragedy, Psychology Today features Emily Treichler, PhD, and Dilip Jeste, MD
• The Age of Wisdom, Ranch & Coast Magazine features Dilip Jeste, MD
• Lessons in Finding Happiness During Hard Times, AARP, features Dilip Jeste, MD
• Alfredo and Susana Pabatao Die; Health Care Aides on the Front Lines, New York Times, features Dilip Jeste
• Bringing Practical Wisdom Into Your Life in the COVID-19 Era, Psychology Today features Dilip Jeste, MD, and Emily B. H. Treichler, PhD
• The pandemic has amplified ageism, Los Angeles Times features Dilip Jeste, MD
• Twins, 91, riding out quarantine together with daily pep rallies, The San Diego Union Tribune features Dilip Jeste, MD
• Seniors bring hardy attitude to coronavirus threat — and navigate unintended consequences, The San Diego Union Tribune features Dilip Jeste, MD
• Coronavirus Self-Quarantine Will Likely Exacerbate Elderly Isolation, KPBS features Dilip Jeste, MD
• Novel Intervention in Senior Housing Communities Increases Resilience and Wisdom, features Dilip Jeste, MD, and Danielle Glorioso, LCSW. See also The Medical News and Medical Xpress
• Being lonely takes years off your life and 'is as dangerous as smoking and being FAT' – but accepting the 'ageing process' could help you avoid feeling alone, Daily Mail features Dilip Jeste, MD

2019

• Finding Meaning in Life Can Make You Healthier Scientists Have Found, Newsweek features research at the UC San Diego Center for Healthy Aging. See also U.S. News & World Report, WebMD, Inverse, The Times, Daily Mail and IFL Science
• More Seniors Are Embracing Technology. But Can They Use It? UCSD Researchers Suggest Asking Them, Forbes, cites research at the UC San Diego Center for Healthy Aging
• Tests on Astronaut and Twin Brother Highlight Spaceflight’s Human Impact Scientific American features Brinda Rana, PhD
• Only the lonely: UC San Diego researchers look at risks, therapies for seniors, The San Diego Union Tribune features the Center for Healthy Aging. See also The Charlotte Observer
• Finding Meaning in Life Can Make You Healthier Scientists Have Found, Newsweek features research at the UC San Diego Center for Healthy Aging. See also U.S. News & World Report, WebMD, Inverse, The Times, Daily Mail and IFL Science
• How the Holiday and Winter Seasons Can Make Us Feel Isolated, Psychology Today, features Dilip Jeste, MD
• Why Young Women Are Experiencing An Epidemic Of Loneliness, Women’s Health, features Dilip Jeste, MD
• Why Do We Feel So Alone? Psychology Today, features Dilip Jeste, MD
• Education won't help much when it comes to dementia, study says, CNN, features Dilip Jeste, MD

Videos

• Too Wise to Want to Be Young Again, White Sands La Jolla features a webinar with Natasha Josefowitz, MSW, PhD
• The Drew Barrymore Show features Successful Agers in Action
• Too Wise to Want to Be Young Again, White Sands La Jolla features a webinar with Natasha Josefowitz, MSW, PhD
• COVID-19 risk couldn't stop pregnant UC San Diego medical student, 10News, features Milli Desai, an MSTAR student
• Older adults are more at risk of social isolation and its health effects during pandemic, WTOP, features UC San Diego Center for Healthy Aging
• The Hidden Truth Show features Dilip Jeste, MD

Podcasts

• Science of Wisdom Kellee Marlow & Dr Dilip Jeste, Spark Radio Podcast
• Critically Speaking Podcast features Dilip Jeste, MD
• Books on Pod features Dilip Jeste, MD
• Wiser, Faster, Sounds True: Insights at the Edge Podcast features Dilip Jeste, MD
• The Society of Biological Psychiatry Podcast features Dilip Jeste, MD

Wiser by former director, Dr. Dilip Jeste

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Articles about the book:

• 5 Books That Will Make You an Instant Know-It-All (the Good Kind!), The Next Big Idea Club features Dilip Jeste, MD
• Wiser: The Scientific Roots of Wisdom, Compassion, and What Makes Us Good, The Next Big Idea Club features Dilip Jeste, MD
• Curl Up with the 8 Must-Read Books of Winter 2021, WISER by Dilip Jeste, MD, with Scott LaFee, is chosen by Next Big Idea Club as one of the “8 Must-Read Books of Winter 2021”!
• Assess Your Wisdom. Equinox features Dilip Jeste, MD