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Functional magnetic resonance imaging responses relate to differences in real-world social experienceNaomi I Eisenberger
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Emotion 7:745-54. 2007..These findings complement previous work showing a dissociation between momentary and retrospective reports of affect and suggest that these processes rely on dissociable neural systems...
The pain of social disconnection: examining the shared neural underpinnings of physical and social painNaomi I Eisenberger
University of California, Department of Psychology, 4444 Franz Hall, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
Nat Rev Neurosci 13:421-34. 2012..Understanding the ways in which physical and social pain overlap may provide new insights into the surprising relationship between these two types of experiences...- Social neuroscience and health: neurophysiological mechanisms linking social ties with physical healthNaomi I Eisenberger
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
Nat Neurosci 15:669-74. 2012..Indeed, the neurocognitive correlates of social disconnection and connection may be important mediators for understanding the relationships between social ties and health... 
The neural bases of social pain: evidence for shared representations with physical painNaomi I Eisenberger
Department of Psychology, 1285 Franz Hall, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
Psychosom Med 74:126-35. 2012..Finally, what these shared neural substrates mean for our understanding of socially painful experience is discussed...- An fMRI study of cytokine-induced depressed mood and social pain: the role of sex differencesNaomi I Eisenberger
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
Neuroimage 47:881-90. 2009..Implications of these sex differences in the neural correlates of cytokine-associated depressed mood and social pain are discussed... - Inflammation-induced anhedonia: endotoxin reduces ventral striatum responses to rewardNaomi I Eisenberger
Department of Psychology, Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095 1563, USA
Biol Psychiatry 68:748-54. 2010..We also examined whether this altered neural activity related to inflammatory-induced increases in depressed mood... - The neural sociometer: brain mechanisms underlying state self-esteemNaomi I Eisenberger
University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 23:3448-55. 2011..Together, the results inform our understanding of the origin and nature of our feelings about ourselves... - Attachment figures activate a safety signal-related neural region and reduce pain experienceNaomi I Eisenberger
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108:11721-6. 2011..g., snakes, spiders) are considered to be prepared fear stimuli, attachment figures, who have historically benefited survival, may serve as prepared safety stimuli, reducing threat- or distress-related responding in their presence... - Neural pathways link social support to attenuated neuroendocrine stress responsesNaomi I Eisenberger
Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 7076, USA
Neuroimage 35:1601-12. 2007.... - Understanding genetic risk for aggression: clues from the brain's response to social exclusionNaomi I Eisenberger
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology, Los Angeles, California 90095 7076, USA
Biol Psychiatry 61:1100-8. 2007.... - Neural correlates of giving support to a loved oneTristen K Inagaki
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Psych Soc, Box 951563, 4444 Franz Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
Psychosom Med 74:3-7. 2012..We focused on a priori regions of interest in the ventral striatum and septal area (SA) because of their role in maternal caregiving behavior in animals... - Psychological inhibition and CD4 T-cell levels in HIV-seropositive womenNaomi I Eisenberger
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, 405 Hilgard Avenue, 90095, USA
J Psychosom Res 54:213-24. 2003..This cross-sectional study examined the hypothesis that the capacity for emotional expression is a critical moderator of the emotional support-health relationship... - Inflammation and social experience: an inflammatory challenge induces feelings of social disconnection in addition to depressed moodNaomi I Eisenberger
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
Brain Behav Immun 24:558-63. 2010..This study demonstrates that inflammation can have social psychological consequences, which may play a role in cytokine-related depressive symptoms... - Does rejection hurt? An FMRI study of social exclusionNaomi I Eisenberger
Department of Psychology, Franz Hall, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
Science 302:290-2. 2003..ACC changes mediated the RVPFC-distress correlation, suggesting that RVPFC regulates the distress of social exclusion by disrupting ACC activity... - Why rejection hurts: a common neural alarm system for physical and social painNaomi I Eisenberger
Department of Psychology, Franz Hall, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
Trends Cogn Sci 8:294-300. 2004..We review evidence suggesting that the anterior cingulate cortex plays a key role in the physical-social pain overlap. We also suggest that the physical-social pain circuitry might share components of a broader neural alarm system... - Personality from a controlled processing perspective: an fMRI study of neuroticism, extraversion, and self-consciousnessNaomi I Eisenberger
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095 1563, USA
Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 5:169-81. 2005..74) than by self-reported neuroticism (r2 = .16), suggesting that neural reactivities may provide a more direct measure of personality than self-reports do... - An experimental study of shared sensitivity to physical pain and social rejectionNaomi I Eisenberger
Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Pain 126:132-8. 2006..These results provide additional support for the hypothesis that pain distress and social distress share neurocognitive substrates. Implications for clinical populations are discussed... - Neural sensitivity to social rejection is associated with inflammatory responses to social stressGeorge M Slavich
Department of Psychology, Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:14817-22. 2010..As such, they have implications for understanding how social stressors may promote susceptibility to diseases with an inflammatory component... - fMRI activation in the amygdala and the orbitofrontal cortex in unmedicated subjects with major depressive disorderJennifer D Townsend
Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Psychiatry Res 183:209-17. 2010..The current study replicates previous research on unmedicated subjects showing no significant differences in amygdala function in depressed vs. control subjects with respect to simple tasks involving emotion observation... - Acetaminophen reduces social pain: behavioral and neural evidenceC Nathan DeWall
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 0044, USA
Psychol Sci 21:931-7. 2010..Thus, acetaminophen reduces behavioral and neural responses associated with the pain of social rejection, demonstrating substantial overlap between social and physical pain... - Witnessing peer rejection during early adolescence: neural correlates of empathy for experiences of social exclusionCarrie L Masten
Department of Psychology, University of California, 1285 Franz Hall, Box 951563, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
Soc Neurosci 5:496-507. 2010..Overall findings suggest that when early adolescents witness social exclusion in their daily lives, some may actually 'feel the pain' of the victims and act more prosocially toward them as a result... - Dispositional mindfulness and depressive symptomatology: correlations with limbic and self-referential neural activity during restBaldwin M Way
Department of Psychology, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Emotion 10:12-24. 2010.... - Effects of a supportive or an unsupportive audience on biological and psychological responses to stressShelley E Taylor
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095
J Pers Soc Psychol 98:47-56. 2010..It was concluded that when one must perform stressful tasks in front of an audience, evaluative concerns may outweigh the potential benefits of a supportive audience... - Anger and fear responses to stress have different biological profilesWesley G Moons
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles 90095, United States
Brain Behav Immun 24:215-9. 2010..Discussion focuses on the role of the HPA axis to increase available metabolic fuel and proinflammatory cytokines to prompt behavioral withdrawal... - An fMRI investigation of race-related amygdala activity in African-American and Caucasian-American individualsMatthew D Lieberman
Department of Psychology, Franz Hall, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095 1563, USA
Nat Neurosci 8:720-2. 2005..Additionally, verbal encoding of African-American targets produced significantly less amygdala activity than perceptual encoding of African-American targets... - Neural responses to emotional stimuli are associated with childhood family stressShelley E Taylor
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
Biol Psychiatry 60:296-301. 2006..This study examined neural mechanisms underlying these consequences of "risky" families (RF) by exploring neural activity to tasks involving responses to emotional stimuli... - Early family environment, current adversity, the serotonin transporter promoter polymorphism, and depressive symptomatologyShelley E Taylor
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, 90095, USA
Biol Psychiatry 60:671-6. 2006..We address this debate by examining the relation of a stressful early family environment, recent adversity/stress, and the 5-HTTLPR to depressive symptomatology in a normal sample... - Putting feelings into words: affect labeling disrupts amygdala activity in response to affective stimuliMatthew D Lieberman
University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
Psychol Sci 18:421-8. 2007..These results suggest that affect labeling may diminish emotional reactivity along a pathway from RVLPFC to MPFC to the amygdala... - Neural correlates of dispositional mindfulness during affect labelingJ David Creswell
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
Psychosom Med 69:560-5. 2007..Converging evidence from the mindfulness and neuroscience literature suggests that labeling affect may be one mechanism for these effects... - Modulating tobacco smoking rates by dopaminergic stimulation and blockadeNicholas H Caskey
University of California Los Angeles School of Medicine and VA West Los Angeles Healthcare Center, VA Greater L A Healthcare System, Los Angeles, CA 90073, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 4:259-66. 2002.... - The face of rejection: rejection sensitivity moderates dorsal anterior cingulate activity to disapproving facial expressionsLisa J Burklund
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095 1563, USA
Soc Neurosci 2:238-53. 2007..Results also suggest that disapproving facial expressions convey a distinct type of threat and should be considered in future studies of socially threatening facial expressions... - Craving love? Enduring grief activates brain's reward centerMary Frances O'Connor
Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California at Los Angeles, USA
Neuroimage 42:969-72. 2008..This study supports the hypothesis that attachment activates reward pathways. For those with CG, reminders of the deceased still activate neural reward activity, which may interfere with adapting to the loss in the present... - Neural bases of moderation of cortisol stress responses by psychosocial resourcesShelley E Taylor
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 95:197-211. 2008..Results suggest that psychosocial resources are associated with lower cortisol responses to stress by means of enhanced inhibition of threat responses during threat regulation, rather than by decreased sensitivity to threat... - Neural correlates of social exclusion during adolescence: understanding the distress of peer rejectionCarrie L Masten
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 4:143-57. 2009.... - Subgenual anterior cingulate responses to peer rejection: a marker of adolescents' risk for depressionCarrie L Masten
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1285 Franz Hall, Box 951563, Los Angeles, CA 90095 1563, USA
Dev Psychopathol 23:283-92. 2011.... - Variation in the mu-opioid receptor gene (OPRM1) is associated with dispositional and neural sensitivity to social rejectionBaldwin M Way
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:15079-84. 2009..Taken together, these data suggest that the A118G polymorphism specifically, and the mu-opioid receptor more generally, are involved in social pain in addition to physical pain...
Research Grants
- Inflammation-Induced Depressed Mood: The Role of Social Neurocognitive MechanismsNAOMI ILANA EISENBERGER; Fiscal Year: 2010..In addition, the proposed research will examine the neural correlates that underlie these social psychological changes to better understand the central mechanisms that contribute to inflammatory-induced depressive symptoms. ..