Loneliness Could Boost Alzheimer’s Risk
February 6, 2007 – 2:34 pm
Researchers at the Rush University Medical Center in Chicago have assessed loneliness and dementia.
“In human beings, loneliness has been associated with impaired social skills. Thus, neural systems underlying social behavior might be less elaborated in lonely persons and, as a result, be less able to compensate for other neural systems compromised by age-related neuropathy,”
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