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Updated: Dec 16, 2020, 01:41 PM IST
In a new study held by Mc Gill University, scientists show the effects of loneliness in the brain highlighting how neural signature may reflect our response to feelings of social isolation.
The researchers show the importance to understand how isolation affects our health through the study. They discovered a sort of signature in the brains of lonely people that make them distinct in various ways, based on variations in the volume of different brain regions as well as based on how those regions communicate with one another across brain networks.
Study finds how loneliness affects our health ANI | Updated: Dec 16, 2020 11:40 IST
Montreal [Canada], December 16 (ANI): In a new study held by Mc Gill University, scientists show the effects of loneliness in the brain highlighting how neural signature may reflect our response to feelings of social isolation.
The researchers show the importance to understand how isolation affects our health through the study. They discovered a sort of signature in the brains of lonely people that make them distinct in various ways, based on variations in the volume of different brain regions as well as based on how those regions communicate with one another across brain networks.
Being lonely can help strengthen parts of the brain linked to reminiscing, future planning and imagination, researchers discover, adding it can help with isolation.
A team of researchers from McGill University examined MRI scan data, genetics and psychological self-assessments of 40,000 older adults from the UK.
Christmas is going to be a lonely time for many this year with social distancing due to Covid-19 continuing and many areas being moved into tighter restrictions.
Canadian researchers wanted to understand how isolation affects health by comparing MRI data of people who reported feeling lonely with those who did not.
They found several differences in the brains of lonely people centred around an area linked to inner thoughts such as reminiscing, future planning and imagination.
Scientists show what loneliness looks like in the brain ANI | Updated: Dec 15, 2020 16:09 IST
Washington [US], December 15 (ANI): This holiday season will be a lonely one for many people as social distancing due to COVID-19 continues. A new study shows a sort of signature in the brains of lonely people that make them distinct in fundamental ways, based on variations in the volume of different brain regions as well as based on how those regions communicate with one another across brain networks.
The study was published in the journal Nature Communications on Tuesday.
A team of researchers examined the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data, genetics and psychological self-assessments of approximately 40,000 middle-aged and older adults who volunteered to have their information included in the UK Biobank: an open-access database available to health scientists around the world. They then compared the MRI data of participants who reported often f
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