According to researchers, social isolation and loneliness significantly increase the risk for premature death.
Loneliness increases self centeredness while being self centered contributes to feelings of loneliness, a new study reports.
Lonely people are 24 percent more likely to feel tired and have a harder time concentrating, a new study reports.
Higher levels of cortical amyloid levels linked to loneliness and an increased Alzheimer's risk, according to a new study.
According to a new study, the risk for feeling lonely is partially due to genetics and these genes are also associated with neuroticism and depression.
A new study reveals the neural circuit that mediates social seeking behavior following periods of loneliness.
Researchers from UCL have found that lonely people have less grey matter in a part of the brain associated with decoding eye gaze and other social cues.