Social isolation and the brain in the pandemic era

D Bzdok, RIM Dunbar - Nature human behaviour, 2022 - nature.com
Intense sociality has been a catalyst for human culture and civilization, and our social
relationships at a personal level play a pivotal role in our health and well-being. These …

Four errors and a fallacy: pitfalls for the unwary in comparative brain analyses

RIM Dunbar, S Shultz - Biological Reviews, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Comparative analyses are the backbone of evolutionary analysis. However, their record in
producing a consensus has not always been good. This is especially true of attempts to …

Multiregion transcriptomic profiling of the primate brain reveals signatures of aging and the social environment

KL Chiou, AR DeCasien, KP Rees, C Testard… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Aging is accompanied by a host of social and biological changes that correlate with
behavior, cognitive health and susceptibility to neurodegenerative disease. To understand …

[HTML][HTML] Characterizing the mechanisms of social connection

MR Delgado, DS Fareri, LJ Chang - Neuron, 2023 - cell.com
Understanding how individuals form and maintain strong social networks has emerged as a
significant public health priority as a result of the increased focus on the epidemic of …

The why, who and how of social touch

JT Suvilehto, A Cekaite, I Morrison - Nature Reviews Psychology, 2023 - nature.com
A growing body of evidence from the behavioural and neural sciences indicates that social
touch has a vital role in human development and psychological well-being. Despite some …

Neural signatures of social inferences predict the number of real-life social contacts and autism severity

A Tusche, RP Spunt, LK Paul, JM Tyszka… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
We regularly infer other people's thoughts and feelings from observing their actions, but how
this ability contributes to successful social behavior and interactions remains unknown. We …

A single-cell multi-omic atlas spanning the adult rhesus macaque brain

KL Chiou, X Huang, MO Bohlen, S Tremblay… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Cataloging the diverse cellular architecture of the primate brain is crucial for understanding
cognition, behavior, and disease in humans. Here, we generated a brain-wide single-cell …

The biology of aging in a social world: Insights from free-ranging rhesus macaques

LE Newman, C Testard, AR DeCasien, KL Chiou… - Neuroscience & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Social adversity can increase the age-associated risk of disease and death, yet the
biological mechanisms that link social adversities to aging remain poorly understood. Long …

Understanding age and society using natural populations

JA Firth, GF Albery, S Bouwhuis… - Philosophical …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Ageing affects almost all aspects of life and therefore is an important process across
societies, human and non-human animal alike. This article introduces new research …

Processing of social closeness in the human brain

M Roseman-Shalem, RIM Dunbar, S Arzy - Communications Biology, 2024 - nature.com
Healthy social life requires relationships in different levels of personal closeness. Based on
ethological, sociological, and psychological evidence, social networks have been divided …