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if orthro are the jocks, are internists the band kids?
#every residency is obvs a 90s teen clique#pathologists are the mathletes#neuro is the chess club?#who are the stoners? anesthesiologists?
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Neuro Headcanons Time
Neuro's last name is Dara
Need glasses but often forgets about them and loses them constantly.
He hates contacts lenses and refuses to wear them, they freak him out.
He has a irregular sleep schedule and over works himself to the point of passing out at times.
Has a lot of patients and it takes a lot to even irritate him.
Works as a historian at a museum.
His family are somewhat wealthy, at least enough to live comfortably and not worry much.
He has a older sister and a younger brother making him the middle child.
His dad Solon was the mind element before Neuro.
His other dad Edgar works as a librarian and writes poetry on the side as a hobby. He also runs and owns their village's libray.
Neuro is in a fencing club and chess club.
Has been know to use a rapier sword when fighting.
Uses a more defensive fighting style
#ninjago#lego ninjago#lego#elemental master#ninjago elemental masters#ninjago neuro#ninjago headcanons#elemental master headcanons#ninjago neoru headcanons
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Computers to humans: Shall we play a game?
Harking back to the 1980s, an instructor tried me to compose a PC program that played spasm tac-toe. I flopped wretchedly. Be that as it may, a long time prior, I disclosed to among my software engineering understudy how to determine spasm tac-toe utilizing the alleged "Minimax calculation," just as it took us with respect to a hr to create a program to do it. Surely my coding abilities have really upgraded throughout the long term, anyway software engineering has really made some amazing progress moreover.
What seemed troublesome simply various many years sooner is startlingly extremely simple today. In 1997, people were paralyzed when a chess-playing IBM PC named Dark Blue beat overall grandmaster Garry Kasparov in a six-game suit. In 2015, Google revealed that its DeepMind framework had gotten a handle on a few 1980s-period PC game, including showing itself a fundamental winning methodology in "Breakout." In 2016, Google's AlphaGo framework beat a highest level Go gamer in a five-game competition.
The pursuit for innovative frameworks that can beat people at games continues. In late May, AlphaGo will unquestionably deal with Ke Jie, the best player around the world, to give some examples challengers at the Fate of Go Highest point in Wuzhen, China. With raising PC power, just as improved plan, PC frameworks can crush individuals additionally at computer games we thought relied upon human instinct, mind, misdirection or feigning - like gambling club poker. I recently saw a video cut in which inflatable ball gamers practice their fills in just as floods versus robot-controlled elastic arms attempting to obstruct the shots. One exercise is clear: When gadgets play to win, human exertion is pointless.
This can be fabulous: We need an ideal man-made intelligence to drive our vehicles, and furthermore a fiery framework looking for pointers of malignancy cells in X-beams. Anyway when it relates to play, we don't mean to lose. Luckily, man-made intelligence can make games more fun, just as maybe even continually great.
Making games that never under any circumstance go downhill
The present computer game fashioners - that compose discharges that acquire than a blockbuster flick- - see a difficulty: Building up an incredible man-made reasoning framework is futile. Nobody means to play a game they get no opportunity of winning.
However people would like to mess around that are vivid, confounded and startling. Likewise the present best computer games shrink after an individual plays for some time. The ideal computer game will unquestionably connect with players by changing and responding in way ins which keep the computer game interesting, perhaps forever.
So when we're making man-made reasoning frameworks, we need to look not to the victorious Profound Blues and furthermore AlphaGos of the globe, yet rather to the mind-boggling achievement of hugely multiplayer online computer games like "Amazing." These sort of computer games are graphically appropriately planned, yet their fundamental fascination is cooperation.
It shows up as though most of individuals are not attracted to incredibly extreme levelheaded difficulties like chess and Go, anyway rather to important associations and furthermore neighborhoods. The authentic deterrent with these immensely multi-player web based games isn't whether they can be crushed by insight (human or manufactured), yet rather exactly how to keep the experience of playing them new just as pristine each and every time.
Change by plan
At present, computer game settings empower people incredible arrangements of doable connections with different players. The capacities in a prison assaulting occasion are all around characterized: Warriors take the harm, healers assist them with recovering their wounds just as the delicate wizards cast spells from far off. Or then again consider "Gateway 2," a game focused absolutely on collaborating robots confounding their methods through a labyrinth of psychological tests.
Looking at these globes with one another empowers you to make regular recollections with your buddies. However any acclimations to these settings or the fundamental plots should be made by human engineers and furthermore designers.
In the reality, changes happen normally, without direction, plan or hand-worked intercession. Gamers learn, just as living focuses adjust. A few microorganisms likewise co-develop, responding per other's developments. (An equivalent sensation happens in a weapons innovation weapons contest.).
Computer game today don't have that level of refinement. And furthermore thus, I don't think setting up a specialist framework that can play contemporary computer games will seriously advance artificial intelligence research.
We want progression.
A game worth playing is a computer game that is erratic because of the way that it changes, a computer game that is ever one of a kind since curiosity is delivered by playing the game. Future computer games need to advance. Their characters ought not simply respond; they need to look at and figure out how to control frail focuses or arrange just as work together. Darwinian advancement just as finding, we comprehend, are the drivers of all uniqueness on Earth. It very well may be what drives change in advanced climates moreover.
Headway recognized how to make all-regular insight. Ought not we, rather than attempting to code our way to man-made intelligence, simply advance man-made intelligence rather? Various labs - including my own which of my partner Christoph Adami- - are managing what is designated "neuro-development.".
In a PC framework, we recreate convoluted airs, similar to a street organization or a natural local area. We create computerized animals just as test them to create more than many substitute ages. Progression itself after that makes the best drivers, or the best creatures at acclimating to the issues - those are the ones that endure.
The present AlphaGo is starting this technique, discovering by continually playing computer games versus itself, and furthermore by evaluating records of computer games played by top Go champs. Anyway it doesn't discover while playing comparatively we do, encountering without management experimentation. Also, it doesn't conform to a specific challenger: For these PC players, the best advance is the best movement, paying little mind to a challenger's style.
Projects that acquire for a fact are the subsequent stage in computer based intelligence. They would surely make PC games undeniably seriously interesting, just as permit advanced mechanics to not just capacity better in reality, anyway to change in accordance with it on the fly.
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I’m so lonesome I could cry
I’m so lonesome I could cry
After only the opening chords and one or two bars of that haunting melody, you probably recognize the old song by Hank Williams — the one with the lyrics that express a feeling almost all of us have experienced:
Hear that lonesome whippoorwill
He sounds too blue to fly.
The midnight train is whining low
I’m so lonesome I could cry.
Although the song captures a common feeling, we now know it is not just a feeling, but a condition that has a very real effect on the body, and as it turns out is also a public health problem — so much so that as the new year turned in Great Britain, the issues of loneliness and social isolation were added to a ministerial portfolio. A survey study there showed that hundreds of thousands of people had not spoken to a friend or relative in a month — that’s a lot of silence in your life.
Humans are social creatures. Among ourselves we form all kinds of complex alliances, affiliations, attachments, loves, and hates. If those connections break down, an individual risks health impacts throughout the body.
The health risks of loneliness
A brief list from recent research includes:
increased risk of cardiovascular disease
decreased cognitive and executive function (there is initial evidence of increased amyloid burden in the brains of the lonely)
as high as a 26% increase in the risk of premature death from all causes
decrease in the quality of sleep
increased chronic inflammation and decreased inflammatory control (linked to the risk of cognitive impairment and dementia)
decreased immune function leading to vulnerability to many types of disease
increased depressive symptoms
increased fearfulness of social situations (sometimes resulting in paranoia)
increased severity of strokes (with shortened survival)
and, as you would expect, an overall decrease in the subjective sense of well-being.
As early as 1988, an important overview of multiple studies documented that social isolation was a major risk factor for mortality, illness, and injury, and in fact was as significant a risk factor as smoking, obesity, or high blood pressure. The effects and prevalence of social isolation have been confirmed in good studies many times now, as well as in the work of advocacy groups such as the AARP. In a 2010 survey study, the AARP found that in the US, 35% of adults over the age of 45 were lonely, and isolation was getting worse — 56% of the lonely had fewer friends at the time of the survey than five years before. A study in 2012 found a higher percentage of lonely people — 40%. The AARP survey found (as have other studies) that loneliness was connected to poor health.
But it is only recently that mapping out the underlying neurobiology and neuroendocrinology has become possible, using new technologies.
The effects of loneliness on the brain
Here are a few ways in which loneliness shows up in the brain:
areas of the brain having to do with the perception of pain are activated
gray matter density decreases in an area of the brain related to social perception
areas of the brain having to do with “mentalization” (imagining other people’s minds) are decreased in activity
the brain (in the all-important amygdala, for example) shows increased activity, with decreased recovery in response to negative stimuli — as Lily Tomlin on Sesame Street said about anger, this is “bad weather in the brain.”
The endocrinology is also important
The HPA axis — the feedback system across the hypothalamus, pituitary, and adrenal glands — is impacted and results mainly through the dysregulation of stress hormones, and this is associated downstream with many negative health outcomes; oxytocin (the “social hormone”) function is apparently decreased; brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), one of the most abundant background facilitators of neuronal plasticity and nerve health, is decreased; and allopregnanolone, an important health-positive neurosteroid in the brain, is also decreased.
If that song, and all the health impacts of loneliness (from the cardio to the neuro to the hormonal), strike close to home, what can a person do?
Understand that people are a medicine
Sigmund Freud, in a chapter on anxiety in his Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis, relates a lovely story about a young boy who was afraid of the dark, except when his aunt talked to him. The boy said, “When someone speaks, it gets lighter.”
So, people are anxiety relievers. And people are antidepressants, as well as blood pressure reducers (mostly). People, in general, are good for you. So, find ways to be around and be with people; let people accompany you on your travels through life.
Ways to do this are more common than you might think.
People from a distance: go to a library reading room to read the papers and take in the crowd.
People closer up: volunteer at a hospital, or a local food bank, or another organization that needs help.
People with engagement: join a congregation of worship; take up a hobby that you can share with others, such as a sport, or a game club (chess, mah-jongg, cards, Scrabble).
People with even more engagement: renew old friendships that may have withered on the vine; you will be surprised what a difference just having tea or coffee with an old friend regularly will make. The AARP found that having even one supportive relationship decreased perceived loneliness (and by implication, the health impact) from 76% for those with none to 36%.
If you feel introspective (Mark Twain said, “The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself”), seek out a therapist with whom you can think about your situation.
People are complicated. People can be difficult. But it is only within the complex and gratifying and sometimes challenging ecology of human relationships that we can truly thrive. See you at the coffee shop.
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I’m so lonesome I could cry
I’m so lonesome I could cry
After only the opening chords and one or two bars of that haunting melody, you probably recognize the old song by Hank Williams — the one with the lyrics that express a feeling almost all of us have experienced:
Hear that lonesome whippoorwill
He sounds too blue to fly.
The midnight train is whining low
I’m so lonesome I could cry.
Although the song captures a common feeling, we now know it is not just a feeling, but a condition that has a very real effect on the body, and as it turns out is also a public health problem — so much so that as the new year turned in Great Britain, the issues of loneliness and social isolation were added to a ministerial portfolio. A survey study there showed that hundreds of thousands of people had not spoken to a friend or relative in a month — that’s a lot of silence in your life.
Humans are social creatures. Among ourselves we form all kinds of complex alliances, affiliations, attachments, loves, and hates. If those connections break down, an individual risks health impacts throughout the body.
The health risks of loneliness
A brief list from recent research includes:
increased risk of cardiovascular disease
decreased cognitive and executive function (there is initial evidence of increased amyloid burden in the brains of the lonely)
as high as a 26% increase in the risk of premature death from all causes
decrease in the quality of sleep
increased chronic inflammation and decreased inflammatory control (linked to the risk of cognitive impairment and dementia)
decreased immune function leading to vulnerability to many types of disease
increased depressive symptoms
increased fearfulness of social situations (sometimes resulting in paranoia)
increased severity of strokes (with shortened survival)
and, as you would expect, an overall decrease in the subjective sense of well-being.
As early as 1988, an important overview of multiple studies documented that social isolation was a major risk factor for mortality, illness, and injury, and in fact was as significant a risk factor as smoking, obesity, or high blood pressure. The effects and prevalence of social isolation have been confirmed in good studies many times now, as well as in the work of advocacy groups such as the AARP. In a 2010 survey study, the AARP found that in the US, 35% of adults over the age of 45 were lonely, and isolation was getting worse — 56% of the lonely had fewer friends at the time of the survey than five years before. A study in 2012 found a higher percentage of lonely people — 40%. The AARP survey found (as have other studies) that loneliness was connected to poor health.
But it is only recently that mapping out the underlying neurobiology and neuroendocrinology has become possible, using new technologies.
The effects of loneliness on the brain
Here are a few ways in which loneliness shows up in the brain:
areas of the brain having to do with the perception of pain are activated
gray matter density decreases in an area of the brain related to social perception
areas of the brain having to do with “mentalization” (imagining other people’s minds) are decreased in activity
the brain (in the all-important amygdala, for example) shows increased activity, with decreased recovery in response to negative stimuli — as Lily Tomlin on Sesame Street said about anger, this is “bad weather in the brain.”
The endocrinology is also important
The HPA axis — the feedback system across the hypothalamus, pituitary, and adrenal glands — is impacted and results mainly through the dysregulation of stress hormones, and this is associated downstream with many negative health outcomes; oxytocin (the “social hormone”) function is apparently decreased; brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), one of the most abundant background facilitators of neuronal plasticity and nerve health, is decreased; and allopregnanolone, an important health-positive neurosteroid in the brain, is also decreased.
If that song, and all the health impacts of loneliness (from the cardio to the neuro to the hormonal), strike close to home, what can a person do?
Understand that people are a medicine
Sigmund Freud, in a chapter on anxiety in his Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis, relates a lovely story about a young boy who was afraid of the dark, except when his aunt talked to him. The boy said, “When someone speaks, it gets lighter.”
So, people are anxiety relievers. And people are antidepressants, as well as blood pressure reducers (mostly). People, in general, are good for you. So, find ways to be around and be with people; let people accompany you on your travels through life.
Ways to do this are more common than you might think.
People from a distance: go to a library reading room to read the papers and take in the crowd.
People closer up: volunteer at a hospital, or a local food bank, or another organization that needs help.
People with engagement: join a congregation of worship; take up a hobby that you can share with others, such as a sport, or a game club (chess, mah-jongg, cards, Scrabble).
People with even more engagement: renew old friendships that may have withered on the vine; you will be surprised what a difference just having tea or coffee with an old friend regularly will make. The AARP found that having even one supportive relationship decreased perceived loneliness (and by implication, the health impact) from 76% for those with none to 36%.
If you feel introspective (Mark Twain said, “The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself”), seek out a therapist with whom you can think about your situation.
People are complicated. People can be difficult. But it is only within the complex and gratifying and sometimes challenging ecology of human relationships that we can truly thrive. See you at the coffee shop.
http://ift.tt/2DKvGkN
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I’m so lonesome I could cry
I’m so lonesome I could cry
After only the opening chords and one or two bars of that haunting melody, you probably recognize the old song by Hank Williams — the one with the lyrics that express a feeling almost all of us have experienced:
Hear that lonesome whippoorwill
He sounds too blue to fly.
The midnight train is whining low
I’m so lonesome I could cry.
Although the song captures a common feeling, we now know it is not just a feeling, but a condition that has a very real effect on the body, and as it turns out is also a public health problem — so much so that as the new year turned in Great Britain, the issues of loneliness and social isolation were added to a ministerial portfolio. A survey study there showed that hundreds of thousands of people had not spoken to a friend or relative in a month — that’s a lot of silence in your life.
Humans are social creatures. Among ourselves we form all kinds of complex alliances, affiliations, attachments, loves, and hates. If those connections break down, an individual risks health impacts throughout the body.
The health risks of loneliness
A brief list from recent research includes:
increased risk of cardiovascular disease
decreased cognitive and executive function (there is initial evidence of increased amyloid burden in the brains of the lonely)
as high as a 26% increase in the risk of premature death from all causes
decrease in the quality of sleep
increased chronic inflammation and decreased inflammatory control (linked to the risk of cognitive impairment and dementia)
decreased immune function leading to vulnerability to many types of disease
increased depressive symptoms
increased fearfulness of social situations (sometimes resulting in paranoia)
increased severity of strokes (with shortened survival)
and, as you would expect, an overall decrease in the subjective sense of well-being.
As early as 1988, an important overview of multiple studies documented that social isolation was a major risk factor for mortality, illness, and injury, and in fact was as significant a risk factor as smoking, obesity, or high blood pressure. The effects and prevalence of social isolation have been confirmed in good studies many times now, as well as in the work of advocacy groups such as the AARP. In a 2010 survey study, the AARP found that in the US, 35% of adults over the age of 45 were lonely, and isolation was getting worse — 56% of the lonely had fewer friends at the time of the survey than five years before. A study in 2012 found a higher percentage of lonely people — 40%. The AARP survey found (as have other studies) that loneliness was connected to poor health.
But it is only recently that mapping out the underlying neurobiology and neuroendocrinology has become possible, using new technologies.
The effects of loneliness on the brain
Here are a few ways in which loneliness shows up in the brain:
areas of the brain having to do with the perception of pain are activated
gray matter density decreases in an area of the brain related to social perception
areas of the brain having to do with “mentalization” (imagining other people’s minds) are decreased in activity
the brain (in the all-important amygdala, for example) shows increased activity, with decreased recovery in response to negative stimuli — as Lily Tomlin on Sesame Street said about anger, this is “bad weather in the brain.”
The endocrinology is also important
The HPA axis — the feedback system across the hypothalamus, pituitary, and adrenal glands — is impacted and results mainly through the dysregulation of stress hormones, and this is associated downstream with many negative health outcomes; oxytocin (the “social hormone”) function is apparently decreased; brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), one of the most abundant background facilitators of neuronal plasticity and nerve health, is decreased; and allopregnanolone, an important health-positive neurosteroid in the brain, is also decreased.
If that song, and all the health impacts of loneliness (from the cardio to the neuro to the hormonal), strike close to home, what can a person do?
Understand that people are a medicine
Sigmund Freud, in a chapter on anxiety in his Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis, relates a lovely story about a young boy who was afraid of the dark, except when his aunt talked to him. The boy said, “When someone speaks, it gets lighter.”
So, people are anxiety relievers. And people are antidepressants, as well as blood pressure reducers (mostly). People, in general, are good for you. So, find ways to be around and be with people; let people accompany you on your travels through life.
Ways to do this are more common than you might think.
People from a distance: go to a library reading room to read the papers and take in the crowd.
People closer up: volunteer at a hospital, or a local food bank, or another organization that needs help.
People with engagement: join a congregation of worship; take up a hobby that you can share with others, such as a sport, or a game club (chess, mah-jongg, cards, Scrabble).
People with even more engagement: renew old friendships that may have withered on the vine; you will be surprised what a difference just having tea or coffee with an old friend regularly will make. The AARP found that having even one supportive relationship decreased perceived loneliness (and by implication, the health impact) from 76% for those with none to 36%.
If you feel introspective (Mark Twain said, “The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself”), seek out a therapist with whom you can think about your situation.
People are complicated. People can be difficult. But it is only within the complex and gratifying and sometimes challenging ecology of human relationships that we can truly thrive. See you at the coffee shop.
http://ift.tt/2DKvGkN
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I’m so lonesome I could cry
I’m so lonesome I could cry
After only the opening chords and one or two bars of that haunting melody, you probably recognize the old song by Hank Williams — the one with the lyrics that express a feeling almost all of us have experienced:
Hear that lonesome whippoorwill
He sounds too blue to fly.
The midnight train is whining low
I’m so lonesome I could cry.
Although the song captures a common feeling, we now know it is not just a feeling, but a condition that has a very real effect on the body, and as it turns out is also a public health problem — so much so that as the new year turned in Great Britain, the issues of loneliness and social isolation were added to a ministerial portfolio. A survey study there showed that hundreds of thousands of people had not spoken to a friend or relative in a month — that’s a lot of silence in your life.
Humans are social creatures. Among ourselves we form all kinds of complex alliances, affiliations, attachments, loves, and hates. If those connections break down, an individual risks health impacts throughout the body.
The health risks of loneliness
A brief list from recent research includes:
increased risk of cardiovascular disease
decreased cognitive and executive function (there is initial evidence of increased amyloid burden in the brains of the lonely)
as high as a 26% increase in the risk of premature death from all causes
decrease in the quality of sleep
increased chronic inflammation and decreased inflammatory control (linked to the risk of cognitive impairment and dementia)
decreased immune function leading to vulnerability to many types of disease
increased depressive symptoms
increased fearfulness of social situations (sometimes resulting in paranoia)
increased severity of strokes (with shortened survival)
and, as you would expect, an overall decrease in the subjective sense of well-being.
As early as 1988, an important overview of multiple studies documented that social isolation was a major risk factor for mortality, illness, and injury, and in fact was as significant a risk factor as smoking, obesity, or high blood pressure. The effects and prevalence of social isolation have been confirmed in good studies many times now, as well as in the work of advocacy groups such as the AARP. In a 2010 survey study, the AARP found that in the US, 35% of adults over the age of 45 were lonely, and isolation was getting worse — 56% of the lonely had fewer friends at the time of the survey than five years before. A study in 2012 found a higher percentage of lonely people — 40%. The AARP survey found (as have other studies) that loneliness was connected to poor health.
But it is only recently that mapping out the underlying neurobiology and neuroendocrinology has become possible, using new technologies.
The effects of loneliness on the brain
Here are a few ways in which loneliness shows up in the brain:
areas of the brain having to do with the perception of pain are activated
gray matter density decreases in an area of the brain related to social perception
areas of the brain having to do with “mentalization” (imagining other people’s minds) are decreased in activity
the brain (in the all-important amygdala, for example) shows increased activity, with decreased recovery in response to negative stimuli — as Lily Tomlin on Sesame Street said about anger, this is “bad weather in the brain.”
The endocrinology is also important
The HPA axis — the feedback system across the hypothalamus, pituitary, and adrenal glands — is impacted and results mainly through the dysregulation of stress hormones, and this is associated downstream with many negative health outcomes; oxytocin (the “social hormone”) function is apparently decreased; brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), one of the most abundant background facilitators of neuronal plasticity and nerve health, is decreased; and allopregnanolone, an important health-positive neurosteroid in the brain, is also decreased.
If that song, and all the health impacts of loneliness (from the cardio to the neuro to the hormonal), strike close to home, what can a person do?
Understand that people are a medicine
Sigmund Freud, in a chapter on anxiety in his Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis, relates a lovely story about a young boy who was afraid of the dark, except when his aunt talked to him. The boy said, “When someone speaks, it gets lighter.”
So, people are anxiety relievers. And people are antidepressants, as well as blood pressure reducers (mostly). People, in general, are good for you. So, find ways to be around and be with people; let people accompany you on your travels through life.
Ways to do this are more common than you might think.
People from a distance: go to a library reading room to read the papers and take in the crowd.
People closer up: volunteer at a hospital, or a local food bank, or another organization that needs help.
People with engagement: join a congregation of worship; take up a hobby that you can share with others, such as a sport, or a game club (chess, mah-jongg, cards, Scrabble).
People with even more engagement: renew old friendships that may have withered on the vine; you will be surprised what a difference just having tea or coffee with an old friend regularly will make. The AARP found that having even one supportive relationship decreased perceived loneliness (and by implication, the health impact) from 76% for those with none to 36%.
If you feel introspective (Mark Twain said, “The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself”), seek out a therapist with whom you can think about your situation.
People are complicated. People can be difficult. But it is only within the complex and gratifying and sometimes challenging ecology of human relationships that we can truly thrive. See you at the coffee shop.
http://ift.tt/2DKvGkN
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I’m so lonesome I could cry
I’m so lonesome I could cry
After only the opening chords and one or two bars of that haunting melody, you probably recognize the old song by Hank Williams — the one with the lyrics that express a feeling almost all of us have experienced:
Hear that lonesome whippoorwill
He sounds too blue to fly.
The midnight train is whining low
I’m so lonesome I could cry.
Although the song captures a common feeling, we now know it is not just a feeling, but a condition that has a very real effect on the body, and as it turns out is also a public health problem — so much so that as the new year turned in Great Britain, the issues of loneliness and social isolation were added to a ministerial portfolio. A survey study there showed that hundreds of thousands of people had not spoken to a friend or relative in a month — that’s a lot of silence in your life.
Humans are social creatures. Among ourselves we form all kinds of complex alliances, affiliations, attachments, loves, and hates. If those connections break down, an individual risks health impacts throughout the body.
The health risks of loneliness
A brief list from recent research includes:
increased risk of cardiovascular disease
decreased cognitive and executive function (there is initial evidence of increased amyloid burden in the brains of the lonely)
as high as a 26% increase in the risk of premature death from all causes
decrease in the quality of sleep
increased chronic inflammation and decreased inflammatory control (linked to the risk of cognitive impairment and dementia)
decreased immune function leading to vulnerability to many types of disease
increased depressive symptoms
increased fearfulness of social situations (sometimes resulting in paranoia)
increased severity of strokes (with shortened survival)
and, as you would expect, an overall decrease in the subjective sense of well-being.
As early as 1988, an important overview of multiple studies documented that social isolation was a major risk factor for mortality, illness, and injury, and in fact was as significant a risk factor as smoking, obesity, or high blood pressure. The effects and prevalence of social isolation have been confirmed in good studies many times now, as well as in the work of advocacy groups such as the AARP. In a 2010 survey study, the AARP found that in the US, 35% of adults over the age of 45 were lonely, and isolation was getting worse — 56% of the lonely had fewer friends at the time of the survey than five years before. A study in 2012 found a higher percentage of lonely people — 40%. The AARP survey found (as have other studies) that loneliness was connected to poor health.
But it is only recently that mapping out the underlying neurobiology and neuroendocrinology has become possible, using new technologies.
The effects of loneliness on the brain
Here are a few ways in which loneliness shows up in the brain:
areas of the brain having to do with the perception of pain are activated
gray matter density decreases in an area of the brain related to social perception
areas of the brain having to do with “mentalization” (imagining other people’s minds) are decreased in activity
the brain (in the all-important amygdala, for example) shows increased activity, with decreased recovery in response to negative stimuli — as Lily Tomlin on Sesame Street said about anger, this is “bad weather in the brain.”
The endocrinology is also important
The HPA axis — the feedback system across the hypothalamus, pituitary, and adrenal glands — is impacted and results mainly through the dysregulation of stress hormones, and this is associated downstream with many negative health outcomes; oxytocin (the “social hormone”) function is apparently decreased; brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), one of the most abundant background facilitators of neuronal plasticity and nerve health, is decreased; and allopregnanolone, an important health-positive neurosteroid in the brain, is also decreased.
If that song, and all the health impacts of loneliness (from the cardio to the neuro to the hormonal), strike close to home, what can a person do?
Understand that people are a medicine
Sigmund Freud, in a chapter on anxiety in his Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis, relates a lovely story about a young boy who was afraid of the dark, except when his aunt talked to him. The boy said, “When someone speaks, it gets lighter.”
So, people are anxiety relievers. And people are antidepressants, as well as blood pressure reducers (mostly). People, in general, are good for you. So, find ways to be around and be with people; let people accompany you on your travels through life.
Ways to do this are more common than you might think.
People from a distance: go to a library reading room to read the papers and take in the crowd.
People closer up: volunteer at a hospital, or a local food bank, or another organization that needs help.
People with engagement: join a congregation of worship; take up a hobby that you can share with others, such as a sport, or a game club (chess, mah-jongg, cards, Scrabble).
People with even more engagement: renew old friendships that may have withered on the vine; you will be surprised what a difference just having tea or coffee with an old friend regularly will make. The AARP found that having even one supportive relationship decreased perceived loneliness (and by implication, the health impact) from 76% for those with none to 36%.
If you feel introspective (Mark Twain said, “The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself”), seek out a therapist with whom you can think about your situation.
People are complicated. People can be difficult. But it is only within the complex and gratifying and sometimes challenging ecology of human relationships that we can truly thrive. See you at the coffee shop.
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After only the opening chords and one or two bars of that haunting melody, you probably recognize the old song by Hank Williams — the one with the lyrics that express a feeling almost all of us have experienced:
Hear that lonesome whippoorwill
He sounds too blue to fly.
The midnight train is whining low
I’m so lonesome I could cry.
Although the song captures a common feeling, we now know it is not just a feeling, but a condition that has a very real effect on the body, and as it turns out is also a public health problem — so much so that as the new year turned in Great Britain, the issues of loneliness and social isolation were added to a ministerial portfolio. A survey study there showed that hundreds of thousands of people had not spoken to a friend or relative in a month — that’s a lot of silence in your life.
Humans are social creatures. Among ourselves we form all kinds of complex alliances, affiliations, attachments, loves, and hates. If those connections break down, an individual risks health impacts throughout the body.
The health risks of loneliness
A brief list from recent research includes:
increased risk of cardiovascular disease
decreased cognitive and executive function (there is initial evidence of increased amyloid burden in the brains of the lonely)
as high as a 26% increase in the risk of premature death from all causes
decrease in the quality of sleep
increased chronic inflammation and decreased inflammatory control (linked to the risk of cognitive impairment and dementia)
decreased immune function leading to vulnerability to many types of disease
increased depressive symptoms
increased fearfulness of social situations (sometimes resulting in paranoia)
increased severity of strokes (with shortened survival)
and, as you would expect, an overall decrease in the subjective sense of well-being.
As early as 1988, an important overview of multiple studies documented that social isolation was a major risk factor for mortality, illness, and injury, and in fact was as significant a risk factor as smoking, obesity, or high blood pressure. The effects and prevalence of social isolation have been confirmed in good studies many times now, as well as in the work of advocacy groups such as the AARP. In a 2010 survey study, the AARP found that in the US, 35% of adults over the age of 45 were lonely, and isolation was getting worse — 56% of the lonely had fewer friends at the time of the survey than five years before. A study in 2012 found a higher percentage of lonely people — 40%. The AARP survey found (as have other studies) that loneliness was connected to poor health.
But it is only recently that mapping out the underlying neurobiology and neuroendocrinology has become possible, using new technologies.
The effects of loneliness on the brain
Here are a few ways in which loneliness shows up in the brain:
areas of the brain having to do with the perception of pain are activated
gray matter density decreases in an area of the brain related to social perception
areas of the brain having to do with “mentalization” (imagining other people’s minds) are decreased in activity
the brain (in the all-important amygdala, for example) shows increased activity, with decreased recovery in response to negative stimuli — as Lily Tomlin on Sesame Street said about anger, this is “bad weather in the brain.”
The endocrinology is also important
The HPA axis — the feedback system across the hypothalamus, pituitary, and adrenal glands — is impacted and results mainly through the dysregulation of stress hormones, and this is associated downstream with many negative health outcomes; oxytocin (the “social hormone”) function is apparently decreased; brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), one of the most abundant background facilitators of neuronal plasticity and nerve health, is decreased; and allopregnanolone, an important health-positive neurosteroid in the brain, is also decreased.
If that song, and all the health impacts of loneliness (from the cardio to the neuro to the hormonal), strike close to home, what can a person do?
Understand that people are a medicine
Sigmund Freud, in a chapter on anxiety in his Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis, relates a lovely story about a young boy who was afraid of the dark, except when his aunt talked to him. The boy said, “When someone speaks, it gets lighter.”
So, people are anxiety relievers. And people are antidepressants, as well as blood pressure reducers (mostly). People, in general, are good for you. So, find ways to be around and be with people; let people accompany you on your travels through life.
Ways to do this are more common than you might think.
People from a distance: go to a library reading room to read the papers and take in the crowd.
People closer up: volunteer at a hospital, or a local food bank, or another organization that needs help.
People with engagement: join a congregation of worship; take up a hobby that you can share with others, such as a sport, or a game club (chess, mah-jongg, cards, Scrabble).
People with even more engagement: renew old friendships that may have withered on the vine; you will be surprised what a difference just having tea or coffee with an old friend regularly will make. The AARP found that having even one supportive relationship decreased perceived loneliness (and by implication, the health impact) from 76% for those with none to 36%.
If you feel introspective (Mark Twain said, “The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself”), seek out a therapist with whom you can think about your situation.
People are complicated. People can be difficult. But it is only within the complex and gratifying and sometimes challenging ecology of human relationships that we can truly thrive. See you at the coffee shop.
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I’m so lonesome I could cry
After only the opening chords and one or two bars of that haunting melody, you probably recognize the old song by Hank Williams — the one with the lyrics that express a feeling almost all of us have experienced:
Hear that lonesome whippoorwill
He sounds too blue to fly.
The midnight train is whining low
I’m so lonesome I could cry.
Although the song captures a common feeling, we now know it is not just a feeling, but a condition that has a very real effect on the body, and as it turns out is also a public health problem — so much so that as the new year turned in Great Britain, the issues of loneliness and social isolation were added to a ministerial portfolio. A survey study there showed that hundreds of thousands of people had not spoken to a friend or relative in a month — that’s a lot of silence in your life.
Humans are social creatures. Among ourselves we form all kinds of complex alliances, affiliations, attachments, loves, and hates. If those connections break down, an individual risks health impacts throughout the body.
The health risks of loneliness
A brief list from recent research includes:
increased risk of cardiovascular disease
decreased cognitive and executive function (there is initial evidence of increased amyloid burden in the brains of the lonely)
as high as a 26% increase in the risk of premature death from all causes
decrease in the quality of sleep
increased chronic inflammation and decreased inflammatory control (linked to the risk of cognitive impairment and dementia)
decreased immune function leading to vulnerability to many types of disease
increased depressive symptoms
increased fearfulness of social situations (sometimes resulting in paranoia)
increased severity of strokes (with shortened survival)
and, as you would expect, an overall decrease in the subjective sense of well-being.
As early as 1988, an important overview of multiple studies documented that social isolation was a major risk factor for mortality, illness, and injury, and in fact was as significant a risk factor as smoking, obesity, or high blood pressure. The effects and prevalence of social isolation have been confirmed in good studies many times now, as well as in the work of advocacy groups such as the AARP. In a 2010 survey study, the AARP found that in the US, 35% of adults over the age of 45 were lonely, and isolation was getting worse — 56% of the lonely had fewer friends at the time of the survey than five years before. A study in 2012 found a higher percentage of lonely people — 40%. The AARP survey found (as have other studies) that loneliness was connected to poor health.
But it is only recently that mapping out the underlying neurobiology and neuroendocrinology has become possible, using new technologies.
The effects of loneliness on the brain
Here are a few ways in which loneliness shows up in the brain:
areas of the brain having to do with the perception of pain are activated
gray matter density decreases in an area of the brain related to social perception
areas of the brain having to do with “mentalization” (imagining other people’s minds) are decreased in activity
the brain (in the all-important amygdala, for example) shows increased activity, with decreased recovery in response to negative stimuli — as Lily Tomlin on Sesame Street said about anger, this is “bad weather in the brain.”
The endocrinology is also important
The HPA axis — the feedback system across the hypothalamus, pituitary, and adrenal glands — is impacted and results mainly through the dysregulation of stress hormones, and this is associated downstream with many negative health outcomes; oxytocin (the “social hormone”) function is apparently decreased; brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), one of the most abundant background facilitators of neuronal plasticity and nerve health, is decreased; and allopregnanolone, an important health-positive neurosteroid in the brain, is also decreased.
If that song, and all the health impacts of loneliness (from the cardio to the neuro to the hormonal), strike close to home, what can a person do?
Understand that people are a medicine
Sigmund Freud, in a chapter on anxiety in his Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis, relates a lovely story about a young boy who was afraid of the dark, except when his aunt talked to him. The boy said, “When someone speaks, it gets lighter.”
So, people are anxiety relievers. And people are antidepressants, as well as blood pressure reducers (mostly). People, in general, are good for you. So, find ways to be around and be with people; let people accompany you on your travels through life.
Ways to do this are more common than you might think.
People from a distance: go to a library reading room to read the papers and take in the crowd.
People closer up: volunteer at a hospital, or a local food bank, or another organization that needs help.
People with engagement: join a congregation of worship; take up a hobby that you can share with others, such as a sport, or a game club (chess, mah-jongg, cards, Scrabble).
People with even more engagement: renew old friendships that may have withered on the vine; you will be surprised what a difference just having tea or coffee with an old friend regularly will make. The AARP found that having even one supportive relationship decreased perceived loneliness (and by implication, the health impact) from 76% for those with none to 36%.
If you feel introspective (Mark Twain said, “The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself”), seek out a therapist with whom you can think about your situation.
People are complicated. People can be difficult. But it is only within the complex and gratifying and sometimes challenging ecology of human relationships that we can truly thrive. See you at the coffee shop.
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