Acute social isolation evokes midbrain craving responses like hunger
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Operant social seeking to a novel peer after social isolation is associated with activation of nucleus accumbens shell in rats
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Acute social isolation evokes midbrain craving responses similar to hunger
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It's Time to Embrace a Better Model of Brain Function: Neural Functioning Owes to Overlapping Areas of Activity, not Isolated Regions - ICJS - International Collegiate Journal of Science
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Forced Social Isolation Causes Neural Craving Similar to Hunger - Scientific American Blog Network
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Acute social isolation evokes midbrain craving responses similar to hunger
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Acute social isolation evokes midbrain craving responses similar to hunger
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Author Correction: Acute social isolation evokes midbrain craving responses similar to hunger
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Chronic pain patients low in social connectedness report higher pain and need deeper pressure for pain relief.
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Loneliness and hunger light up brain activity in similar ways
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A hunger for social contact, MIT News
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Acute social isolation evokes midbrain craving responses similar to hunger
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Articles in 2020 Nature Neuroscience
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The need to connect: Acute social isolation causes neural craving responses similar to hunger
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Behavioral and neural dissociation of social anxiety and loneliness
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Acute social isolation evokes midbrain craving responses like hunger