study - email me

Wednesday February 18, 2009 - 9:31PM EDT

So I read this article on a small study about loniless. One of the results discovered was that people who are lonely don't have as much activity in their reward center of their brain. There was still the lingering question of whether loneliness causes the lower reward response or the intrisic low reward response trigerred behvhoir or led directly to feeling lonely. Regardless of that answer I can tell you from my experience that feeling disconnected or lonely makes things seem less affectual. You just don't care about things. Things that should provide a lift or benefit don't. Things are worth nothing to you. The study went on to hypothesize further that such reduction in reward response from loneliness may be remnants of our evolutionary past where survival depended on being part of a group. Not being part of the group essentially meant death. Today we don't need the same close human groups to physically survive but mentally we have't evovled our brains differerntly yet. All I can say is I didn't need a study and a damn article to tell me that shit.