Keep reading to learn how social isolation accelerates cognitive decline and why increasing social contact could protect ...

The new handshake in times of social distancing. Source: Linda Bestwick/Shutterstock As a medical doctor, I am acutely aware there are risks and benefits to everything. It may seem obvious to socially ...

If loneliness results in the same risk of dying early as smoking up to 15 cigarettes a day, could the strategies that greatly ...

New research from the University of St Andrews has discovered a direct causal effect between social isolation and a faster decline in later-life cognitive function. Pathological cognitive decline is ...

Encouraging people to mistake digital companions for real friends is prima facie unethical. Encouraging people to have imaginary friends is no solution to social isolation. There is a risk that the ...