Thus correctly getting to the root cause of the problem - neuronal death, rather than having to solve the secondary effects like loss of social contacts. You likely will lose the first two categories that Aristotle mentions.
Aristotle believes that there are three different kinds of friendship; that of utility, friendship of pleasure, and virtuous friendship.
The loneliness problem:
How Loneliness Affects Your Brain
Lonely people quickly move to the edges of social networks — here’s why.
This can make people who are socially isolated more abrasive and defensive — it’s a form of self-preservation.
This may be why lonely people can get marginalised.
Professor John Cacioppo, an expert on loneliness, speaking about an earlier study on the marginalisation of the lonely, said:
“We detected an extraordinary pattern of contagion that leads people to be moved to the edge of the social network when they become lonely.The new research, conducted by Professor Cacioppo and colleagues, compared the brains of lonely and non-lonely people.
On the periphery people have fewer friends, yet their loneliness leads them to losing the few ties they have left.
These reinforcing effects mean that our social fabric can fray at the edges, like a yarn that comes loose at the end of a crocheted sweater.”
Both were hooked up to an EEG machine to measure the electrical activity around the brain.
The brains of lonely people were quicker to spot words related to social threat — such as ‘hostile’ — than non-lonely people.
In fact, lonely people were more on the look-out for words with negative connotations in general.
This could be an ancient defence mechanism to help us survive, the authors argue:
“Fish on the edge of the group are more likely to be attacked by predators, not because they are the slowest or weakest, but because of the ease of isolating and preying upon those on theBehind this is an evolutionary theory, they say:
social perimeter.
As a result, fish have evolved to swim to the middle of the group when a predator attacks.”
“Being on the social perimeter is not only sad, it is dangerous.The study was published in the journal Cortex (Balogh et al., 2015).
Our evolutionary model of the effects of perceived social isolation (loneliness) on the brain as well as a growing body of behavioral research suggests that loneliness promotes short-term self-preservation, including an increased implicit vigilance for social, in contrast to nonsocial, threats.”
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