Environmental Enrichment as a Strategy to Confront Social Isolation Under the COVID-19 Pandemic

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.

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The social isolation experienced by the world population due to the COVID-19 pandemic tends to trigger behavioral changes on an exponential scale, regardless of social class, age, gender, or ethnicity. Environmental enrichment is considered an important strategy to induce biological factors for cognitive and emotional development, favoring better adaptation to isolation.