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Your Brain On Our Shaky Post-Pandemic Re-Opening

By AirTalk Staff
Published Jun 30, 2021
The first visitors enjoy breakfast at the Getty Museum on it's reopening day, May 25, 2021, in Los Angeles. - The museum re-opened at limited capacity following Covid-19 safety guidelines and keeping the small galleries closed. California officials announced the state is on track to remove physical distancing guidelines and fully reopen its economy beginning on June 15. - (Photo by VALERIE MACON / AFP) (Photo by VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images)
The first visitors enjoy breakfast at the Getty Museum on it's reopening day, May 25, 2021, in Los Angeles.
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Your Brain On Our Shaky Post-Pandemic Re-Opening

If you’ve been to an unmasked party after California’s reopening, you may have experienced a feeling of transgression and social anxiety. A sense of relearning how to interact with large groups of people, in person no less!

How have our brains changed during the restrictions of the pandemic, and what’s happening to them now? 

Guest: 

April Thames, associate professor of psychology and director of the Social Neuroscience in Health Psychology Lab at USC