Jan 28, 2019 · To keep these feelings from being overwhelming, the research team is hedging their bets on a neurosteroid called pregnenolone, which can help ease the mind's anxiety and over-perception of...

Jan 15, 2019 · Loneliness elevates our risk of developing a range of disorders, including cardiovascular disease, neurodegenerative diseases, cognitive decline, and metastatic cancer. It also weakens the immune...

Feb 12, 2019 · But researchers from the US are working on a more radical solution to the perceived contemporary problem of loneliness: a pill. The rationale for this work is that loneliness negatively affects...

Dec 17, 2019 · Psychiatric patients are “terribly neglected in, and extruded by, our society.”There’s no simple solution, and no pill that’s going to make the lonely less numb. But knowing that loneliness ebbs and flows, and that it can be shaped by the “loneliness industry” can help us develop a deeper understanding of the experience, Fernandez said.

Feb 8, 2019 · Can a Pill Fight Loneliness? A University of Chicago scientist thinks the hormone pregnenolone might reduce lonely people’s fear of connecting—and their risk of serious health problems

Aug 12, 2019 · Studies in animals suggest that a single injection of pregnenolone can reduce or “normalize” an exaggerated threat response in socially isolated lab mice, similar to the kind of hyper...

Loneliness elevates our risk of developing a range of disorders, including cardiovascular disease, neurodegenerative diseases, cognitive decline, and metastatic cancer. It also weakens the immune system, making us more susceptible to infections.

Oct 4, 2019 · It may sound like something out of Brave New World, but researchers are looking into making a real pill that would combat loneliness, and hopefully allow people to reconnect with one another.

Feb 17, 2019 · Dr Cacioppo is leading a team developing a "loneliness pill" that she hopes will help relieve the more severe symptoms suffered by the acutely lonely. "Loneliness is widespread and contagious. It is an epidemic," she says.

Mar 2, 2024 · Under the Inflation Reduction Act, the government can “negotiate” (a euphemism for “set” since the government is the lone buyer) the prices of small-molecule drugs — that is, pills, tablets and...