Social ties and health: A social neuroscience perspective

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 407-413

  Eisenberger, Naomi I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; BRAIN REGION; EVOKED RESPONSE; HEALTH; HUMAN; NEUROSCIENCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SAFETY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIAL TIE; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; HEALTH; HUMANS; NEUROSCIENCES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 84878349663     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: 18736882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2013.01.006     Document Type: Review

References (72)

1. Grebe K.M., Takeda K., Hickman H.D., Bailey A.M., Embry A.C., Bennick J.R., Yewdell J.W. Cutting edge: sympathetic nervous system increases proinflammatory cytokines and exacerbates influenza a virus pathogenesis. J Immunol 2009, 184:540-544.
2. Irwin M.R., Cole S.W. Reciprocal regulation of the neural and innate immune systems. Nat Rev Immunol 2011, 11:625-632.
3. Miller G., Chen E., Cole S.W. Health psychology: developing biologically plausible models linking the social world and physical health. Annu Rev Psychol 2009, 60:5.1-5.24.
4. Finch C.E. The Biology of Human Longevity: Inflammation, Nutrition, and Aging in the Evolution of Life Spans 2007, Academic Press, Boston, MA.
5. Kirschbaum C., Pirke K.M., Hellhammer D.H. The 'Trier Social Stress Test'-a tool for investigating psychobiological stress responses in a laboratory setting. Neuropsychobiology 1993, 28:76-81.
6. Dickerson S.S., Gable S.L., Irwin M.R., Aziz N., Kemeny M.E. Social-evaluative threat and proinflammatory cytokine regulation: an experimental laboratory investigation. Psychol Sci 2009, 20:1237-1244.
7. Bosch J.A., de Gaus E.J., Carroll D., Goedhart A.D., Anane L.A., van Zaten J.J., Helmerhorst E.J., Edwards K.M. A general enhancement of autonomic and cortisol responses during social evaluative threat. Psychosom Med 2009, 71:877-885.
8. Cole S.W., Hawkley L.C., Arevalo J.M., Sung C.Y., Rose R.M., Cacioppo J.T. Social regulation of gene expression in human leukocytes. Genome Biol 2007, 8:R189.
9. Eisenberger N.I., Cole S.W. Social neuroscience and health: neurophysiological mechanisms linking social ties with physical health. Nat Neurosci 2012, 15:669-674.
10. Mobbs D., Petrovic P., Marchant J.L., Hassabis D., Weiskopf N., Seymour B., Dolan R.J., Frith C.D. When fear is near: threat imminence elicits prefrontal-periaqueductal gray shifts in humans. Science 2007, 317:1079-1083.
11. Mobbs D., Yu R., Rowe J.B., Eich H., FeldmanHall O., Dalgeish T. Neural activity associated with monitoring the oscillating threat value of a tarantula. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2010, 23:20582-20586.
12. Phelps E.A. Emotion and cognition: insights from studies of the human amygdala. Annu Rev Psychol 2006, 57:27-53.
13. Ciocchi S., Herry C., Grenier F., Wolff S.B.E., Letzkus J.J., Vlachos I., Ehrlich I., Sprengel R., Deisseroth K., Stadler M.B., et al. Encoding of conditioned fear in central amygdala inhibitory circuits. Nature 2010, 468:277-282.
14. Phelps E.A., Delgado M.R., Nearing K.I., LeDoux J.E. Extinction learning in humans: role of the amygdala and vmPFC. Neuron 2004, 43:897-905.
15. Delgado M.R., Olsson A., Phelps E.A. Extending animal models of fear conditioning to humans. Biol Psychol 2006, 73:39-48.
16. Rainville P. Brain mechanisms of pain affect and pain modulation. Curr Opin Neurobiol 2002, 12:195-204.
17. Mobbs D., Marchant J.L., Hassabis D., Seymour B., Tan G., Gray M., Petrovic P., Dolan R.J., Frith C.D. From threat to fear: the neural organization of defensive fear systems in humans. J Neurosci 2009, 29:12236-12243.
18. Nili U., Goldberg H., Weizman A., Dudai Y. Fear thou not: activity of frontal and temporal circuits in moments of real-life courage. Neuron 2010, 66:949-962.
19. Büchel C., Dolan R.J. Classical fear conditioning in functional neuroimaging. Curr Opin Neurobiol 2000, 10:219-223.
20. Milad M.R., Quirk G.J., Pitman R.K., Orr S.P., Fischi B., Rauch S.L. A role for the human dorsal anterior cingulate cortex in fear expression. Biol Psychiatry 2007, 62:1191-1194.
21. Schiller D., Delgado M.R. Overlapping neural systems mediating extinction, reversal, and regulation of fear. Trends Cogn Sci 2010, 14:268-276.
22. Burgos-Robles A., Vidal-Gonzalez I., Quirk G.J. Sustained conditioned responses in prelimbic prefrontal neurons are correlated with fear expression and extinction failure. J Neurosci 2009, 29:8474-8482.
23. Brinley-Reed M., Mascagni F., McDonald A.J. Synaptology of prefrontal cortical projections to the basolateral amygdala: an electron microscopic study in the rat. Neurosci Lett 1995, 202:45-48.
24. LeDoux J.E. Emotion circuits in the brain. Ann Rev Neurosci 2000, 23:155-184.
25. Tellioglu T., Aslan N., Goren Z., Onat F., Oktay S. Role of the AV3V region in the pressor responses induced by amygdala stimulation. Eur J Pharmacol 1997, 336:163-168.
26. Kalin N.H., Shelton S.E., Davidson R.J. The role of the central nucleus of the amygdala in mediating fear and anxiety in the primate. J Neurosci 2004, 24:5506-5515.
27. Kapp B.S., Frysinger R.C., Gallagher M., Haselton J.R. Amygdala central nucleus lesions: effect on heart rate conditioning in the rabbit. Phys Behav 1979, 23:1109-1117.
28. McCabe P.M., Gentile C.G., Markgraf C.G., Teich A.H., Schneiderman N. Ibotenic acid lesions in the amygdaloid central nucleus but not in the lateral subthalamic area prevent the acquisition of differential Pavlovian conditioning of bradycardia in rabbits. Brain Res 1992, 580:155-163.
29. Bechara A., Tranel D., Damasio H., Adolphs R., Rockland C., Damasio A.R. Double dissociation of conditioning and declarative knowledge relative to the amygdala and hippocampus in humans. Science 1995, 269:1115-1118.
30. Mangina C.A., Beuzeron-Mangina J.H. Direct electrical stimulation of specific human brain structures and bilateral electrodermal activity. Int J Physchophysiol 1996, 22:1-8.
31. Critchley H.D., Mathias C.J., Josephs O., O'Doherty J., Zanini S., Dewar B.K., Cipolotti L., Shallice T., Dolan R.J. Human cingulate cortex and autonomic control: converging neuroimaging and clinical evidence. Brain 2003, 126:2139-2152.
32. Bandler R., Keay K.A., Floyd N., Price J. Central circuits patterned autonomic activity during active vs. passive emotional coping. Brain Res Bull 2000, 53:95-104.
33. Critchley H.D. Neural mechanisms of autonomic, affective and cognitive interpretation. J Comp Neurol 2005, 493:154-166.
34. Henke P.G. The telencephalic limbic system and experimental gastric pathology: a review. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 1982, 6:381-390.
35. Eisenberger N.I., Lieberman M.D., Williams K.D. Does rejection hurt? An fMRI study of social exclusion. Science 2003, 302:290-292.
36. Eisenberger N.I. The pain of social disconnection: examining the shared neural underpinnings of physical and social pain. Nat Rev Neurosci 2012, 13:421-434.
37. Fisher H.E., Brown L.L., Aron A., Strong G., Mashek D. Reward, addiction, and emotion regulation systems associated with rejection in love. J Neurophysiol 2010, 104:51-60.
38. Kross E., Berman M.G., Mischel W., Smith E.E., Wager T.D. Social rejection shares somatosensory representation with physical pain. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2011, 108:6270-6275.
39. Eisenberger N.I., Inagaki T.K., Muscatell K.A., Haltom K.E.B., Leary M.R. The neural sociometer: brain mechanisms underlying state self-esteem. J Cogn Neurosci 2011, 23:3448-3455.
40. Kross E., Egner T., Ochsner K., Hirsch J., Downey G. Neural dynamics of rejection sensitivity. J Cogn Neurosci 2007, 19:945-956.
41. Burklund L.J., Eisenberger N.I., Lieberman M.D. The face of rejection: rejection sensitivity moderates dorsal anterior cingulate activity to disapproving facial expressions. Soc Neurosci 2007, 2:238-253.
42. Gundel H., O'Connor M.F., Littrell L., Fort C., Lane R.D. Functional neuroanatomy of grief: an fMRI study. Am J Psychiatry 2003, 160:1946-1953.
43. O'Connor M.-F., Wellisch D.K., Stanton A.L., Eisenberger N.I., Irwin M.R., Lieberman M.D. Craving love? Enduring grief activates brain's reward center. Neuroimage 2008, 42:969-972.
44. Kersting A., Ohrmann P., Pedersen A., Kroker K., Samberg D., Bauer J., Kugel H., Koelkebeck K., Steinhard J., Heindel W., et al. Neural activation underlying acute grief in women after the loss of an unborn child. Am J Psychiatry 2009, 166:1402-1410.
45. Eisenberger N.I., Taylor S.E., Gable S.L., Hilmert C.J., Lieberman M.D. Neural pathways link social support to attenuated neuroendocrine stress responses. Neuroimage 2007, 35:1601-1612.
46. Holt-Lunstad J., Smith T.B., Layton J.B. Social relationship and mortality risk: a meta-analytical review. PLoS Med 2010, 7:e1000316.
47. Cacioppo J.T., Hawkley L.C. Perceived social isolation and cognition. Trends Cogn Sci 2009, 13:447-454.
48. Critchley H.D., Corfield D.R., Chandler M.P., Mathias C.J., Dolan R.J. Cerebral correlates of autonomic cardiovascular arousal: a functional neuroimaging investigation in humans. J Physiol 2000, 5I:259-270.
49. Gianaros P.J., van der Veen F.M., Jennings J.R. Regional cerebral blood flow correlates with heart period and high-frequency heart period variability during working-memory tasks: implications for the cortical and subcortical regulation of cardiac autonomic activity. Psychophysiology 2004, 41:521-530.
50. Gianaros P.J., Derbyshire S.W.G., May J.C., Siegle G.J., Gamalo M.A., Jennings J.R. Anterior cingulate activity correlates with blood pressure during stress. Psychophysiology 2005, 42:627-635.
51. Gianaros P.J., Onywuenyi I.C., Sheu L.K., Christie I.C., Critchley H.D. Brain systems for baroreflex suppression during stress in humans. Hum Brain Mapp 2011, 33:1700-1716.
52. Wager T.D., van Ast V.A., Hughes B.L., Davidson M.L., Lindquist M.A., Ochsner K.N. Brain mediators of cardiovascular responses to social threat. Part II: Prefrontal-subcortical pathways and relationship with anxiety. Neuroimage 2009, 47:836-851.
53. Wang J., Rao H., Wetmore G.S., Furlan P.M., Korczykowski M., Dinges D.F., Detre J.A. Prefusion functional functional MRI reveals cerebral blood flow pattern under psychological stress. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2005, 102:17804-17809.
54. Wang J., Korczkowski M., Rao H., Fan Y., Pluta J., Gur R.C., McEwen B.S., Detre J.A. Gender difference in neural response to psychological stress. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 2007, 2:227-239.
55. Dedovic K., Rexroth M., Wolff E., Duchesne A., Scherling C., Beaudry T., Lue S.D., Lord C., Engert V., Pruessner J.C. Neural correlates of processing stressful information: an event-related fMRI study. Brain Res 2009, 1293:49-60.
56. Slavich G.M., Way B.M., Eisenberger N.I., Taylor S.E. Neural sensitivity to social rejection is associated with inflammatory responses to social stress. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2010, 107:14817-14822.
57. O'Doherty J.P. Reward representations and reward-related learning in the human brain: insights from neuroimaging. Curr Opin Neurobiol 2004, 14:769-776.
58. Quirk G.J., Likhtik E., Pelletier J.G., Paré D. Stimulation of medial prefrontal cortex decreases the responsiveness of central amygdala output neurons. J Neurosci 2003, 23:8800-8807.
59. Milad M.R., Quirk G.J. Neurons in medial prefrontal cortex signal memory for fear extinction. Nature 2002, 420:70-74.
60. Wager T.D., Waugh C.E., Lindquist M., Noll D.C., Fredrickson B.L., Taylor S.F. Brain mediators of cardiovascular responses to social threat. Part I: Reciprocal dorsal and ventral sub-regions of the medial prefrontal cortex and heart-rate reactivity. Neuroimage 2009, 47:821-835.
61. Pruessner J.C., Dedovic K., Khalili-Mahani N., Engert V., Pruessner M., Buss C., Renwick R., Dagher A., Meaney M.J., Lupien S. Deactivation of the limbic system during acute psychosocial stress: evidence from positron emission tomography and functional magnetic resonance imaging. Biol Psychiatry 2008, 63:234-240.
62. Buchanan T.W., Driscoll D., Mowrer S.M., Sollers J.J., Thayer J.F., Kirschbaum C., Tranel D. Medial prefrontal cortex damage affects physiological and psychological stress responses differently in men and women. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2010, 35:56-66.
63. Thayer J.F., Ahs F., Fredrikson M., Sollers J.J., Wager T.D. A meta-analysis of heart rate variability and neuroimaging studies: implications for heart rate variability as a marker of stress and health. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2012, 36:747-756.
64. Eisenberger N.I., Master S.L., Inagaki T.I., Taylor S.E., Shirinyan D., Lieberman M.D., Naliboff B. Attachment figures activate a safety signal-related neural region and reduce pain experience. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2011, 108:11721-11726.
65. Younger J., Aron A., Parke S., Chatterjee N., Mackey S. Viewing pictures of a romantic partner reduces experimental pain: involvement of neural reward systems. PLoS ONE 2010, 5:e133309.
66. Onoda K., Okamoto Y., Nakashima K., Nittono H., Ura M., Yamawaki S. Decreased ventral anterior cingulate cortex activity is associated with reduced social pain during emotional support. Soc Neurosci 2009, 4:443-454.
67. Maddock R.J., Garrett A.S., Buonocore M.H. Remembering familiar people: the posterior cingulate cortex and autobiographical memory retrieval. Neuroscience 2001, 104:667-676.
68. Krienen F.M., Tu P.-C., Buckner R.L. Clan mentality: evidence that the medial cortex responds to close others. J Neurosci 2010, 30:13906-13915.
69. Coan J.A., Schaefer H.S., Davidson R.J. Lending a hand: social regulation of the neural response to threat. Psychol Sci 2006, 17:1032-1039.
70. Karremans J.C., Heslenfeld D.J., van Dillen L.F., Van Lange P.A.M. Secure attachment partners attenuate neural responses to social exclusion: an fMRI investigation. Int J Psychophysiol 2011, 81:44-50.
71. Masten C.L., Telzer E.H., Fuligni A., Lieberman M.D., Eisenberger N.I. Time spent with friends in adolescence relates to less neural sensitivity to later peer rejection. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 2012, 7:106-114.
72. DeWall C.N., Masten C.L., Powell C., Combs D., Schurtz D.R., Eisenberger N.I. Do neural responses to rejection depend on attachment style? An fMRI study. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 2012, 7:184-192.