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[Anonymous No.]

Prolonged loneliness can transform the brain to make you more antisocial

>Prolonged loneliness can affect transform the brain in a way that makes those who suffer it less able to relate to others, a new study suggests.

>Research showed that animals kept in isolation for long periods produce less myelin - white matter - in parts of their brain crucial for complex emotional behaviour.

>The findings from the University at Buffalo and Mt Sinai School of Medicine shed new light on the brain's ability to adapt to environmental changes - a phenomenon known as brain plasticity.

>In an experiment, adult mice - normally social animals - were isolated for eight weeks to induce a depressive-like state, before being introduced to a mouse they hadn't met before.

>While mice are normally highly motivated to be social, those who had been socially isolated did not show any interest in interacting with the new mouse, a typical model of social avoidance and withdrawal.

[Anonymous No.]

My brain is sick.

[Anonymous No.]

Cool

[Anonymous No.]

But Anon, how can one be lonely with the Internet?
None of us are actually alone here, right?
You just need to abandon the concept of a physical presence being necessary to combat loneliness.

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I'm surprised to hear that this is new research. I guess that brain stuff really is difficult.

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[Anonymous No.]

no shit

what a waste of time to even research that

[Anonymous No.]

>>10129392
Well they need to do something to justify those grants they get.

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>>10129384
Of course it's difficult. You wanna poke around in a brain you've gotten cut someone skull open.

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>>10129405
go to bed Anno

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>>10129396
They have tons of rats to pry open.

[Anonymous No.]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_causation

This pretty much sums up every single "X brain function may be the cause of (insert "mental illness" or undesirable part of perceiving existence here) hypothesis ever made.

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>>10129432

Why those subs?

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>>10129392
>>10129397
If it's not science, it's guessing. That's why everything has to be researched. The fact that this happened over 60 years after inventing the atomic bomb tells a lot about people's priorities.

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>Prolonged loneliness can affect transform the brain in a way that makes those who suffer it less able to relate to others

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>>10129440
Whoops, that's not even the one I meant to post.

Also I just noticed there's a fucking typo in the first fucking sentence of the article.

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>>10129442
The atomic bomb had short-term real life applications, you see.

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>>10129442

>If it's not science, it's guessing.

I think people who put too much faith in science are more retarded than people who put faith in religion.

It's to the point now where you can't say anything without some faggot butting in and saying "Well you don't have X degree and they do, so everything you say is completely disregarded and worthless. Because "science's" generally accepted doctrines are always right and people are always wrong next to them no matter what."

You could tell these people that the ice is cold, and if they didn't personally believe it was, they would bring up that argument just to be able to say what you're saying is nothing but the rants of a stupid crazy man.

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>>10129458
Exactly.