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Social distancing is a good way to keep the Coronavirus for spreading. However, social distancing causes isolation and anxiety. Researchers at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) have run a study that shows that both loneliness and hunger are both share signals at the same place in the brain. This can tell us that our need to connect with others is like as essential to us as our need to eat. During the study a group of adults were told to go into an empty room without any electronics or novels. Another group was told not to eat anything. Both groups stayed for 10 hours. After the 10 hours an fMRI was run on a part of the brain known as the substantia nigra. The substantia nigra is a part of the brain that releases dopamine a neurotransmitter responsible for pleasure. The results that were run though a computer program shows that fasting showed similar neural patterns to social isolation. According Livia Tomova a neuroscientist who was part of the study said “This tells us that there seems to be an underlying shared neural signature between the two states. Social contact is a very basic nee
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