Loneliness: Clinical import and interventions

S Cacioppo, AJ Grippo, S London… - Perspectives on …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
In 1978, when the Task Panel report to the US President's Commission on Mental Health
emphasized the importance of improving health care and easing the pain of those suffering …

Toward a neurology of loneliness.

S Cacioppo, JP Capitanio, JT Cacioppo - Psychological bulletin, 2014 - psycnet.apa.org
Social isolation has been recognized as a major risk factor for morbidity and mortality in
humans for more than a quarter century. The brain is the key organ of social connections …

Loneliness in the modern age: An evolutionary theory of loneliness (ETL)

JT Cacioppo, S Cacioppo - Advances in experimental social psychology, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract We describe the Cacioppo Evolutionary Theory of Loneliness (ETL) and its
manifestations in contemporary society. The early conceptualizations of loneliness were as …

The neuroendocrinology of social isolation

JT Cacioppo, S Cacioppo, JP Capitanio… - Annual review of …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Social isolation has been recognized as a major risk factor for morbidity and mortality in
humans for more than a quarter of a century. Although the focus of research has been on …

Depression, stress, and anhedonia: toward a synthesis and integrated model

DA Pizzagalli - Annual review of clinical psychology, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Depression is a significant public health problem, but its etiology and pathophysiology
remain poorly understood. Such incomplete understanding likely arises from the fact that …

Interoceptive dysfunction: toward an integrated framework for understanding somatic and affective disturbance in depression.

C Harshaw - Psychological bulletin, 2015 - psycnet.apa.org
Depression is characterized by disturbed sleep and eating, a variety of other nonspecific
somatic symptoms, and significant somatic comorbidities. Why there is such close …

Loneliness across phylogeny and a call for comparative studies and animal models

JT Cacioppo, S Cacioppo, SW Cole… - Perspectives on …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Loneliness typically refers to the feelings of distress and dysphoria resulting from a
discrepancy between a person's desired and achieved levels of social relations, and there is …

The behavioral, anatomical and pharmacological parallels between social attachment, love and addiction

JP Burkett, LJ Young - Psychopharmacology, 2012 - Springer
Rationale Love has long been referred to as an addiction in literature and poetry. Scientists
have often made comparisons between social attachment processes and drug addiction …

The neurobiology of pair bonding: insights from a socially monogamous rodent

KA Young, KL Gobrogge, Y Liu, Z Wang - Frontiers in neuroendocrinology, 2011 - Elsevier
The formation of enduring relationships between adult mates (ie, pair bonds) is an integral
aspect of human social behavior and has been implicated in both physical and …

The contributions of oxytocin and vasopressin pathway genes to human behavior

RP Ebstein, A Knafo, D Mankuta, SH Chew… - Hormones and …, 2012 - Elsevier
Arginine vasopressin (AVP) and oxytocin (OXT) are social hormones and mediate affiliative
behaviors in mammals and as recently demonstrated, also in humans. There is intense …