Being friends with a lot of people you don’t actually know on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok may just be bad for your health. This, according to a new study linking adult loneliness and social media.

Lonely older adults do seem to have a lower memory baseline and screening for loneliness is important for many health reasons.

A new study from Oregon State University scientists suggests that social media connections with strangers can contribute to ...

Nature-based group activities can reduce loneliness, improve sleep and cognition, and increase a sense of connection to ...

A first-of-its-kind study of U.S. adults suggests that all of those strangers you're friends with on social media are not ...

However, they noted that even with the recent increases, the majority of students involved in the study did not report high levels of loneliness. "We employed multi-level modeling to examine ...

A new study shows loneliness increases the risk for dementia and cognitive impairment. The latest findings aren’t surprising given the emerging research linking loneliness to poor health. Loneliness ...

Last year, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy shined light on the loneliness epidemic affecting millions of Americans and the toll that social isolation takes on mental and physical health. New ...

Phone and video calls don’t make up for chatting in person when it comes to combating loneliness, according to a new study. Researchers found that in-person visits reduced feelings of loneliness in ...

A UB researcher is among the co-authors of a recent paper that reveals how loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic has affected American women over the age of 70. The study of more than 27,400 Women’s ...