ReviewFrontiers in psychiatry2023
On the relationship between the social brain, social connectedness, and wellbeing.
Review in Frontiers in psychiatry, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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- Promoting Social Connectedness Through Interbrain Neurofeedback.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2025Trial
- Betrayal and unfairness are linked through insula-valuation network dynamics.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- How helping others helps us: neural mechanisms linking prosocial behavior to psychological and physical wellbeing.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2026Review
- Happier individuals generate more spontaneous thoughts about friends and value relationships over money.Communications psychology · 2025Article
- The ConNECT approach: toward a comprehensive understanding of meaningful interpersonal moments in psychotherapy and beyond.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Article
- Neural mechanisms and social support for mental health in old age by martial arts exercise.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Review
- The mediating effect of social connectedness between internet gaming disorder and somatic symptoms in adolescents: a large sample cross-sectional study.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- Health enhancing behaviors in early adolescence: an investigation of nutrition, sleep, physical activity, mindfulness and social connectedness and their association with psychological distress and wellbeing.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- The neurosociological paradigm of the metaverse.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Attachment to robots and therapeutic efficiency in mental health.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Characterizing the mechanisms of social connection.Neuron · 2023Review
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Abstract
The emergence of social neuroscience in the past two decades has offered a useful neurocognitive framework for understanding human social behavior. Of importance, social neuroscience research aimed to provide mechanistic explanations for the established link between wellbeing and social behavioral phenomena-particularly those reflective of social connectedness. Here, we provide an overview of the relevant literature focusing on recent work using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). In general, fMRI research demonstrated that aspects of social connectedness that are known to either positively (e.g., social acceptance) or negatively (e.g., social isolation) impact wellbeing also modulated the activity of subcortical reward system accordingly. Similar modulatory influence was found for the activity of other brain regions such as the medial prefrontal cortex, which are typically regarded as components of the "social brain" that support a wide range of functions related to social cognition and behavior. Elucidating such individual differences in brain activity may shed light onto the neural underpinnings of the link between social connectedness and wellbeing.
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