A huge European study found that lonely older adults tend to have weaker memory, but they do not lose memory faster over time ...

Somewhere inside the brain of a person who feels chronically disconnected, the architecture starts to look different. The ...

The entorhinal cortex is a sliver of brain tissue no bigger than a postage stamp, tucked just in front of the hippocampus. It ...

Loneliness and cognitive performance were related in the short term for older adults, according to a new study. For years, research has shown that older adults who are lonely are at greater risk for ...

New research out of Western University has found a genetic component to loneliness but it's not hardwired. Those are among the findings of a study that involved 764 pairs of adult twins. Dr. Julie ...

Many people are turning to chatbots for companionship. Unfortunately, science suggests AI friends will just make you lonelier.

Social media "friends" don't help overcome loneliness, according to new research. The first-of-its-kind study suggests that all of the strangers people befriend online are not actually helping them to ...

A UB researcher is among the co-authors of a recent paper that reveals how loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic has affected American women over the age of 70. The study of more than 27,400 Women’s ...

We’re more connected than ever, thanks to social media and smartphones, but we’re also lonelier than ever. Especially young people. At least according to a new study sponsored by Cigna. The insurance ...

A recent study from the University of York, UK, has taken on an underexplored area regarding the prevalence, and associated factors of loneliness, among men in the context of the coronavirus disease ...