5280: But social isolation doesn’t just lead to depression and poor health, says Deana Davalos, a cognitive neuroscience professor in the psychology department at Colorado State University; it also impairs brain function. That’s why, in 2015, Davalos and her colleagues at CSU started their own adaptation of the B Sharp Program, which gifts patients with dementia-related disorders and their primary caregivers tickets to a season of the Fort Collins Symphony’s Masterworks concerts.

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