Acute social isolation evokes midbrain craving responses like

Acute social isolation evokes midbrain craving responses similar to hunger

Homeostatic Regulation of Energetic Arousal During Acute Social Isolation: Evidence From the Lab and the Field - Ana Stijovic, Paul A. G. Forbes, Livia Tomova, Nadine Skoluda, Anja C. Feneberg, Giulio Piperno

Forced Social Isolation Causes Neural Craving Similar to Hunger - Scott Barry Kaufman

Forced Social Isolation Causes Neural Craving Similar to Hunger - Scientific American Blog Network

Homeostatic Regulation of Energetic Arousal During Acute Social Isolation: Evidence From the Lab and the Field - Ana Stijovic, Paul A. G. Forbes, Livia Tomova, Nadine Skoluda, Anja C. Feneberg, Giulio Piperno

All the lonely people - Overton

Lonely brains crave people like hungry brains crave food

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Social Brain Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology

Oxytocin neurons mediate the effect of social isolation via the VTA circuits

We Crave Interacting With People the Same Way We Crave Food

It's Time to Embrace a Better Model of Brain Function: Neural Functioning Owes to Overlapping Areas of Activity, not Isolated Regions - ICJS - International Collegiate Journal of Science

It's Time to Embrace a Better Model of Brain Function: Neural Functioning Owes to Overlapping Areas of Activity, not Isolated Regions - ICJS - International Collegiate Journal of Science

Operant social seeking to a novel peer after social isolation is associated with activation of nucleus accumbens shell in rats