The Effects of Loneliness on Brain Function

German scientists scanned the brains of eight researchers at the Antarctic Station for over a year, starting before their mission and ending afterwards. Chronically lonely people have an 83% higher risk of mortality than anybody else. Loneliness as a concept is hard to talk about objectively because it has to be self-reported. You can't treat loneliness by trying to make people feel less lonely.

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