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The loneliness of social isolation can affect your brain and raise dementia risk in older adults

  • Written by Karra Harrington, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Clinical Psychologist, Pennsylvania State University
The loneliness of social isolation can affect your brain and raise dementia risk in older adultsIn healthy older people, loneliness has a pattern of stress response similar to that of people who are under chronic stress. Justin Paget via Getty Images

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