While the article is super interesting and talks about many different scientific finding I think there's an excerpt that's really important to pay attention to:

While the article is super interesting and talks about many different scientific finding I think there's an excerpt that's really important to pay attention to: > Of course, the chicken-and-egg question about all these findings is: Do differences in the brain predispose us to loneliness, or does loneliness rewire and shrink the brain? According to Bzdok, it’s not currently possible to solve this puzzle. He believes, however, that the causality may point both ways. So the truth is "Loneliness Reshapes the Brain" might not really be true and it's possible it's the other way around. Anyhow we understand so little about the brain we'll probably just be speculating for a few decades about this. However, one thing's sure, we are social animals, and that 100% means being isolated is bad for whatever your body has evolved to do over the course of millennia.