Loneliness is something most of us will experience at some point. It is a normal emotion, not a character flaw. But it is ...

Adults who reported feeling lonely had a higher risk of developing degenerative heart valve disease, even after accounting ...

A majorstudy finds that loneliness is linked to lower memory scores in older adults but does not speed up the rate of ...

Dame Maggie Smith of Downton Abbey fame once said: “There’s a difference between solitude and loneliness.” For Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the therapist with a thick German accent who taught Americans to ...

Loneliness is common, and it's not only reserved for certain demographics or those with certain lifestyles. A therapist ...

Two people can sit at the same dinner table, share the same number of conversations in a week, and still leave with entirely different feelings about their social lives. One feels connected. The other ...

BUENOS AIRES — Is being alone the same as feeling lonely? Hardly, for the latter is a sense of isolation and the need for more encounters or relations. Yet even in company you can feel alone, which is ...

It’s a painful paradox: We struggle with epidemic levels of loneliness on a planet inhabited by almost 8 billion other people. Loneliness and social isolation are major health concerns, with ...

“I administered cocaine and ended up discovering the source of loneliness.” Said two MIT neuroscientists, Kay Tye, and Gillian Matthews. By accident, in 2012, Matthews and Tye stumbled across the ...

It is difficult to single out one factor that causes loneliness, and many people in our small country have problems in multiple areas, such as child rearing, work and poverty. Thus, Ivan Bartolo's ...