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A pioneering neuroscientist uncovers the reason why for loneliness and what to do about it. John T. Cacioppos groundbreaking research topples one of the pillars of modern medication and mindset: the focus on the average person as the unit of inquiry. By employing brain scans, monitoring blood circulation pressure, and analyzing immune system function, he shows the overpowering influence of social context?one factor so strong it can alter DNA replication. He defines an unrecognized syndrome?chronic loneliness?brings it out of the shadow of its cousin melancholy, and shows how this subjective sense of communal isolation exclusively disrupts our perceptions, habit, and physiology, becoming a snare that not only reinforces isolation but can also lead to early death. He gives the lie to the Hobbesian view of individuals aspect as a war of most against all, and he shows how communal cooperation is, in simple fact, humanitys defining attribute. Most important, he shows how exactly we can break the snare of isolation for our gain both as individuals so that as a society.
