Your Brain on Loneliness

The year was 1848. The place was a railway construction site in Vermont. The man was Phineas Gage.

What happened next would forever change our understanding of the human brain. Immediately after the explosion, Gage acted like the clean-cut hole in his skull was just a scratch. He walked toward the nearest cart, drove into town, and saw a doctor. And as if this wasn’t enough, he joked about his injury.

“Here,” Gage told the doctor, “is enough business for you,”

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