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What are the effects of isolation in the mind?

Posted by / September 6, 2011

Some people crave their alone time, but more often than we may like to admit, we get lonely. According to researcher John Cacioppo at the University of Chicago, 20 percent of all people are unhappy because of social isolation at any given moment.

In recent years, Cacioppo has turned his attention to the minds of the socially isolated, and his team has found that the brains of lonely people react differently than those with strong social networks. What’s still unclear is whether loneliness rewires the brain to function differently, or whether the brain predisposes certain people to feel isolated.

Full article at HowStuffWorks.com.

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