AUTHOR=Davim André , Trindade da silva Laíse , Vieira Paulo TITLE=Environmental Enrichment as a Strategy to Confront Social Isolation Under the COVID-19 Pandemic JOURNAL=Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience VOLUME=14 YEAR=2021 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/behavioral-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnbeh.2020.564184 DOI=10.3389/fnbeh.2020.564184 ISSN=1662-5153 ABSTRACT=

The moment of social isolation experienced by the world population due to the COVID-19 pandemic tends to trigger behavioral changes of different orders and on an exponential scale, regardless of social class, age, gender, or ethnicity. Environmental enrichment presents itself as an important strategy to face the social isolation imposed by the pandemic, in order to act as an important agent of induction of biological factors for cognitive and emotional development, favoring a better possibility of adaptation to isolation.