Loneliness is known to drastically impact memory in older adults, but now a study has suggested it doesn’t speed up mental decline. There are currently estimated to be 982,000 people with dementia in ...

A spritz of the so-called “love hormone” might be the key to easing persistent feelings of loneliness. In a 2014 study, a team of European and Israeli researchers tested whether oxytocin, the hormone ...

Loneliness is not just a personal issue people battle, but it is soon on its way to becoming a global health hazard. According to experts, the mortality effects of loneliness are equivalent to smoking ...

Friendship is a lot like food. We need it to survive. What is more, we seem to have a basic drive for it. Psychologists find that human beings have fundamental need for inclusion in group life and for ...

“It did not get easier; it just got different,” said Dr. Christina Wyman, a USA Today bestselling author and teacher living in Michigan, who experienced the devastating effects of chronic loneliness ...

Former U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, in a Sunday interview, warned about the adverse effects of chronic loneliness, which could lead to a shorter lifespan. Murthy, on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” told ...

Loneliness is known to drastically impact memory in older adults, but now a study has suggested it doesn’t speed up mental decline. There are currently estimated to be 982,000 people with dementia in ...