How is loneliness represented in the brain?

We found that loneliness corresponds with a neural representation of oneself that is highly dissimilar from the neural representations of other people. In other words, feeling disconnected from others may be mirrored by a “lonelier” neural self-representation.

Authors

Andrea L. Courtney, Meghan L. Meyer

Publication

The Journal of neuroscience

July 15, 2020

Research paper

How is loneliness represented in the brain?

July 15, 2020

Research paperPress Release

Authors

Andrea L. Courtney, Meghan L. Meyer

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