Moving from Humanities to Sciences: A New Model of Wisdom Fortified by Sciences of Neurobiology, Medicine, and Evolution.

Grossman and Colleagues' Review Grossman and colleagues present an outstanding review of the concepts of wisdom, mainly from the fields of philosophy, psychology, cognitive sciences, and education. Our model is based on the fields of psychology and cognitive sciences as Grossmann et al.'s is, but also includes contributions from neurobiology, medicine (including psychiatry), and evolutionary genetics, with the ultimate purpose of harnessing wisdom to promote personal and societal health, well-being, and longevity. A common factor underlying these maladies is loneliness, which is a widespread phenomenon well beyond the US borders, that is multi-determined, but with major contributions from globalization and ultra-rapid growth of technology (Jeste, Graham, & Nguyen, 2020; Jeste, Lee, & Cacioppo, [31]). [Extracted from the article]