Study suggests why heart attack victims do better with social su...

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Chemistry, Physics and Materials Sciences  Wed, 09/17/2008 - 23:00

(Ohio State University) Researchers have identified specific damages to the brain that may occur when heart attack victims are socially isolated from others.

The study in mice found that those animals that lived alone before undergoing a heart attack showed five to eight times more damage to neurons in one part of the brain than did similar animals that lived with others.

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