Title:  Acute social isolation evokes midbrain craving responses similar to hunger

Moderator: Youjin Zhao, Ph.D

Speaker: Lai Han, M.D. candidate

Time: 14:00, March 31th 2021

Location: the lab of HMRRC (10011, the VIII Teaching Building)

Ted: How we read each other's minds | Rebecca Saxe

Highlight:

1.After isolation, people felt lonely and craved social interaction.

2.Midbrain regions showed selective activation to food cues after fasting and to social cues after isolation; these responses were correlated with self-reported craving.

3.By contrast, striatal and cortical regions differentiated between craving food and craving social interaction.