Washington, February 13, 2016, 00:03 – REGNUM US researchers found in the brain of mice brain of a special unit, which is activated when an animal is alone. The operation of this part of the brain sends the mouse to search for relatives, and it runs the instinct of survival, reports an article in the journal Cell.
Scientists believe that similar processes occur in the human brain.
According to the author of the study Tai Kai from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the team was the first to explain the emergence of feelings of loneliness processes occurring at the cellular level. In the future, specialists in more detail examine this mechanism, and may be better able to explain the conscious preference for some people alone
In this case, the original purpose of the experiments was different. Scientists studied mice brain’s response to the pleasure hormone dopamine, and change his work in the presence of drug addiction.
They found that at a time when the mouse is in a group, some part of the brain showed no activity, and vice versa, bursts of brain activity in the period, when the mouse is isolated from the rest. Results of the experiment, according to scientists, will help them to understand the mechanism of neural connections in mammals, being alone.
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