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The article discusses how loneliness can have negative effects on health, and how social connections can be beneficial. It also discusses how chronic loneliness is different from depression, and how social isolation can affect perceptions, behavior, and physiology.
A pioneering neuroscientist draws on detailed studies to demonstrate the correlation between social environments and health, offering insight into the differences between chronic loneliness and depression while explaining how social isolation can affect perceptions, behavior, and physiology. Reprint.