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Marta Zaraska

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How Loneliness Reshapes the Brain

By Marta Zaraska
February 28, 2023
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Feelings of loneliness prompt changes in the brain that further isolate people from social contact.

About the author

Marta Zaraska is a Polish-Canadian science journalist whose work has appeared in the Washington Post, Scientific American, Spectrum, The Atlantic, Discover and other publications. She is the author of Meathooked: The History and Science of Our 2.5-Million Year Obsession with Meat, selected by Nature as one of “the best science picks” of 2016, and of Growing Young: How Friendship, Optimism and Kindness Can Help You Live to 100, a Globe and Mail bestseller. She lives in France with her husband, daughter and an elderly cocker spaniel.
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