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Loneliness Alters Your Brain's Social Network

posted by cmn32480 on Saturday June 20 2020, @02:51PM   Printer-friendly
from the i'm-not-lonely,-i'm-an-introvert dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:

Loneliness alters your brain's social network: Feeling disconnected from others is reflected by how the brain represents relationships:

A brain region called the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) maintains a structured map of a person's social circles, based on closeness. People that struggle with loneliness often perceive a gap between themselves and others. This gap is reflected by the activity patterns of the mPFC.

The researchers had the participants think of different groups of people (self, "close others", acquaintances, and celebrities) while being scanned in an fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging). The perceived closeness of the subject to the imagined targets were revealed in the scans. Further, the lonelier-feeling participants had reduced perception of similarity to others in all categories.

Journal Reference:
Andrea L. Courtney, Meghan L. Meyer. Self-other representation in the social brain reflects social connection [$], Journal of Neuroscience (DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2826-19.2020)

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 20 2020, @11:27PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 20 2020, @11:27PM (#1010512)

    Ari isn't stupid

    He retreats into petty insults because he's not so smart as he'd like to appear.

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  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 21 2020, @07:31AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 21 2020, @07:31AM (#1010605)

    Head-up-the-ass boot-licking scumsucking Florida-man Key Lime lizard. Problem with being stupid, you don't know you are. Ari is just letting a little bit of light into your private world. (In Greek, the term is

    Etymology

    The word "idiot" comes from the Greek noun ἰδιώτης idiōtēs 'a private person, individual', 'a private citizen' (as opposed to an official), 'a common man', 'a person lacking professional skill, layman', later 'unskilled', 'ignorant', derived from the adjective ἴδιος idios 'private', 'one's own'.[3] In Latin, idiota was borrowed in the meaning 'uneducated', 'ignorant', 'common',[4] and in Late Latin came to mean 'crude, illiterate, ignorant'.[5] In French, it kept the meaning of 'illiterate', 'ignorant', and added the meaning 'stupid' in the 13th century.[6] In English, it added the meaning 'mentally deficient' in the 14th century.[2]

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot [wikipedia.org] )