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A nation exhausted: The neuroscience of why Americans are tuning out politics

  • Written by Arash Javanbakht, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Wayne State University
imageMany Americans are choosing not to engage with politics, instead sticking their heads in the sand to protect their mental health. iStock/Getty Images Plus

“I am definitely not following the news anymore,” one patient told me when I asked about her political news consumption in the weeks before the 2024 U.S. presidential election.

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