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Re: wide-scale reports of cognitive decline since lockdowns:

> In lab animals, isolation has been shown to cause brain shrinkage and the kind of brain changes you'd see in Alzheimer's disease — reduced brain cell connections and reduced levels of brain-derived neurotrophic factor, which is important for the formation, connection, and repair of brain cells.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/how-isolation-a...



Course we don't know if that would still be the case for rats that were capable of communicating with others online.




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