Society within the Brain

Jeanyung Chey is the current president of Korean Psychological Association, and the director of Clinical Neuroscience Lab at Seoul National University, where she has led numerous projects on cognitive ageing and protective and risk factors for dementia, such as education, social connection, and stress, using multidisciplinary approach and longitudinal data. A founding leader of the Korean Society for Neuropsychological Research, she opened the first clinical neuropsychology lab at a hospital in South Korea, and has developed many neuropsychological tools, including the first dementia test in the country. She has been awarded the National Prize for Contribution in Overcoming Dementia in 2022 from the Korean government.

Introduction; Part I. Approaches to Society within the Brain: 1. A case of rapidly aging society and its dementia population Jeanyung Chey; 2. Social network positions and health status in older adults Yoosik Youm and Junsol Kim; 3. Social brain and how it links social intelligence and well-being Sunhae Sul and Isu Cho; 4. Genomics of cognitive aging in social isolation Sung-Ha Lee and Seyul Kwak; Part II. Society Interacting with Brain, Cognition, and Health in Late Life: 5. Life course approach to cognitive aging and dementia Jeanyung Chey and Seyul Kwak; 6. Enriched social network and brain function Seyul Kwak, Jeanyung Chey, and Yoosik Youm; 7. Psychoneuroimmunology linking social isolation with cognitive aging Sung-Ha Lee; 8. Loneliness and brain health in late life Hairin Kim and Jeanyung Chey; Part III. An Individual's Cognitive Aging with Others: Key Findings, Issues, and Implications: 9. Social relation and cognitive function in older adults Hoyoung Kim; 10. Social network and the brain Yoosik Youm and Junsol Kim; 11. Origins of individual differences in social behavior and social brain Isu Cho and Sunhae Sul; 12. Preventing dementia with social connection Jeanyung Chey, Isu Cho, Hairin Kim, Hoyoung Kim, Seyul Kwak, Sunhae Sul, Sung-Ha Lee, and Yoosik Youm.