The pain of social disconnection: Examining the shared neural underpinnings of physical and social pain

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 421-434

  Eisenberger, Naomi I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MORPHINE; OPIATE; OPIATE ANTAGONIST; OPIATE RECEPTOR;

ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ANXIETY DISORDER; ATTENTION; BRAIN CORTEX; CATHEXIS; CHRONIC PAIN; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; OPIATE ADDICTION; PAIN; PHYSICAL PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; REVIEW; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PAIN; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOCIAL SEPARATION; SURVIVAL RATE; SYMPTOM;

ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANIMALS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; NERVOUS SYSTEM PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PAIN; REJECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SENSATION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84861232210     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn3231     Document Type: Review

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