Alien Explains Why You're Better Off Alone

This week, we stepped off the spaceship to find how how humans feel about the work toward a pill that can cure loneliness. We also speak with neuroscientist Moriel Zelikowsky about the basic brain science of social isolation. Micky and Quinn argue about the utility in loneliness. Like it or hate it, this pill can cure your loneliness.

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Citations:

Tachykinin research:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17786860/

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1517/14728214.9.1.9

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0091305706000736?via%3Dihub

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2885.2008.00952.x

Loneliness is bad for your health:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4391342/

Animal medicine:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4267359/