Loneliness Epidemic Brain Damage | Dr. Sydney Ceruto
The Loneliness Epidemic: What Neuroscience Reveals About Why We Can’t Connect The loneliness epidemic is the population-scale rise in chronic social disconnection — and it is rewiring brains. Sustained isolation elevates glucocorticoids that suppress oligodendrocytes, the cells that wrap nerve fibers in myelin. The result is measurable thinning of prefrontal white matter, sometimes within eight weeks. ...
