The actual headline for this story is Study Finds Social Isolation Makes Strokes More Deadly. It was a study done at Ohio State about mice:
"New research in mice suggests that social isolation may promote more damaging inflammation in the brain during a stroke.
Researchers at Ohio State University found that all the male mice that
lived with a female partner survived seven days after a stroke, but
only 40 percent of socially isolated animals lived that long.
In addition, the paired mice suffered much less brain damage than did the surviving solitary mice."The bottom line is (and this is coming form a Communications major), when you have company your body is happy and makes good chemicals. I appreciate the
OSU folks figuring out what is behind it all, but we already knew: Friends good. Sitting in your room alone bad.
Our thought here is that everyone knows someone is a wheelchair. We should all make it our business to chat them up on a regular basis.
Rob
