What happens in the brains of lonely people—and how they can seek greater connection, writes tarawell88
, researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging to examine how people mapped or organized representations of others based on their perceived level of connection, and whether loneliness affected that organizational mapping in the brain.
Though the participants’ brains represented themselves as separate from others, the self-other distance was bridged by their perceptions of their closest friends as the most similar to themselves. That is, the social brain seems to stratify neural representations of people based on our subjective connection to them and separately cluster people who are and are not in ourInterestingly, the lonely participants showed altered self-other mapping in these social brain regions.
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