We all feel lonely sometimes, but are the effects serious?
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References/Further Reading:
Genetic and Environmental Contributions to Loneliness in Adults: The Netherlands Twin Register Study
Loneliness, health, and mortality in old age: A national longitudinal study
Loneliness and social isolation as risk factors for coronary heart disease and stroke: systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal observational studies
Social Relationships and Mortality Risk: A Meta-analytic Review
Being Ignored Hurts, Even by a Stranger
Yearning for connection? Loneliness is associated with increased ventral striatum activity to close others
Social regulation of gene expression in human leukocytes
/ Why is loneliness so toxic? Scientists are exploring what it does to the human body
Loneliness Predicts Self-Reported Cold Symptoms After a Viral Challenge
How stress influences disease: Study reveals inflammation as the culprit
/ Loneliness and Cortisol: Momentary, Day-to-day, and Trait Associations
The Lonely Society
Loneliness in Relation to Suicide Ideation and Parasuicide: A Population-Wide Study
Suicide, a Crime of Loneliness
Lonliness among Older Adults
Feelings of loneliness, but not social isolation, predict dementia onset: results from the Amsterdam Study of the Elderly (AMSTEL)
Loneliness linked to major life setbacks for millennials, study say