Tag: brains

Social connection with others is basic to an individual's mental and physical prosperity. How the brain maps associations with others according to one's self has for some time been a riddle. A Dartmouth study finds that the closer they feel to individuals emotionally, the more also they speak to them in their brain. Interestingly, individuals who feel social separation seem to have a lonelier, neural self-portrayal. "If we had a stamp of neural activity that reflected your self-representation and one that reflected that of people whom you are close to, for most of us, our stamps of neural activity would look pretty similar. Yet, for lonelier people, the neural activity was really differentiated from that of other people," clarified senior creator Meghan L. Meyer, an associate teacher ...