Loneliness is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Deeper understanding of
neurobiological mechanisms underlying loneliness is needed to identify potential …

Social relationships are adaptive and crucial for survival. This review presents existing
evidence indicating that our social connections to others have powerful influences on health …

Suicidal behavior in older adults (65 years old and over) is a major public health issue in
many countries. Suicide rates increase during the life course and are as high as …

The review synthesised evidence examining the association between a. loneliness with
inflammation and b. social isolation with inflammation in adults aged 16 or older from the …

The human social brain is complex. Current knowledge fails to define the neurobiological
processes underlying social behaviour involving the (patho-) physiological mechanisms that …

'How Emotions Are Made did what all great books do. It took a subject I thought I understood
and turned my understanding upside down'–Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point …

The brain is constantly bombarded by stimuli, and the relative salience of these inputs
determines which are more likely to capture attention. A brain system known as the'salience …

In this paper, we integrate recent theoretical and empirical developments in predictive
coding and active inference accounts of interoception (including the Embodied Predictive …

The motivation to avoid pain and injury is a fundamental instinct, crucial to the survival of
individuals and species. Yet, each year, millions of people purposefully and directly injure …

When people are forced to be isolated from each other, do they crave social interactions? To
address this question, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging to measure neural …