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Curing Loneliness With A Pill? Researchers Say They Can Do It

Researchers at the University of Chicago's Brain Dynamics Laboratory say they plan to cure loneliness with medication. (Steven Leith/Flickr)
Researchers at the University of Chicago's Brain Dynamics Laboratory say they plan to cure loneliness with medication. (Steven Leith/Flickr)

Researchers at the University of Chicago’s Brain Dynamics Laboratory say they plan to cure loneliness with medication.

Here & Now‘s Tonya Mosley speaks with Julianne Holt-Lunstad, a psychologist at Brigham Young University, about loneliness and social isolation.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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