Social contact isn’t just nice to have—it might be a fundamental need that our brains are hardwired to seek out: (From 2021)
We’ve known since the 1980s that people who are more socially isolated tend to have worse health, but we still don’t knowloneliness is so closely linked to our health.
Matthews’ realization shunted her career in a new direction. Leaving her research on drug addiction to one side, in 2013 she went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to join Kay Tye’s laboratory.
In 2020 another MIT neuroscientist released a paper suggesting that human brains respond to social isolation in a way similar to Matthews’ mice. Livia Tomova recruited 40 volunteers and asked them to turn in their smartphones, tablets, and laptops and spend 10 hours in a room by themselves.
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