How loneliness affects your brain?

Loneliness makes those areas of the brain responsible for detecting the threat and attack, be more active, a new study found. This can make people who are socially isolated, more defensive and suspicious, the mechanism is a kind of self-defense. And as a result, perhaps this is one reason why single people to be marginalized.

Dr. John Chakopo, an expert on loneliness, explains:

"We discovered interesting dynamics of the phenomenon in which men are pushed to the edge of the social network when they become lonely. On the periphery people have fewer friends , yet their loneliness leads them to losing the few that are left to them. "

"This enhancement effect probably means that our social network can be unraveled from the edges, just like dowdy sweater."

The study compared the brains of lonely people and nesamotni. Both groups were tested using EEG apparatus which are measured electrical activity of the gray matter.

Have them shown a series of words that are varied in terms of social commitment and positivity.

It turned out that the brains of lonely people were much faster at spotting words that were associated with the identification of social threat, such as the word "hostile" than nesamotnite people.

"Being on the periphery of social perimeter is not only sad, but dangerous. Our model of social exclusion shows how it affects the brain of the isolated man. But the focus of the loneliness is short-term survival and sebezapazvane, including on social threats, "ends Chakopo.

source: Psy Blog