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What loneliness looks like in the brain? 'Signature' makes it different

Humans use the default network when remembering the past, envisioning the future, or thinking about a hypothetical present.

Researchers found the default networks of lonely people were more strongly wired together and surprisingly, their grey matter volume in regions of the default network was greater. This maybe because, lonely people are more likely to use imagination, memories of the past, or hopes for the future to overcome their social isolation.