Using fMRI scans on 19 lonely fans of “Game of Thrones”, researchers discovered that they processed their favorite characters similarly to real friends in their brains. This suggests that lonelier …::In lonely people, the boundary between real friends and favorite fictional characters gets blurred in the part of the brain that is active when thinking about others, a new study found.Researchers scanned the brains of people who were fans of “Game of Thrones” while they thought about various characters in the show and about their real frien…

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    1 year ago

    MRI for this makes me think more needs to be spent on cancer research. MRIs don’t come cheap if at all for people dying of cancer. GoT? never watched any

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      1 year ago

      You’re not wrong, but people also die of behaviors that stem from loneliness. I’d suggest it’s not a complete waste to examine.