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What are the effects of isolation in the mind?

Source: How Stuff Works

University of Chicago researchers have found that lonely people have less activity in the ventral striatum part of the brain, which is part of its reward center and is associated with learning.

This entry was posted in The Individual and Society and tagged Culture & Society, People, Science & Nature on March 1, 2020 by Chandler Gifford.

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