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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
imageIn 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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