From the course: How to Train Your Brain For Happiness
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Your brain’s need for connection
From the course: How to Train Your Brain For Happiness
Your brain’s need for connection
- A research study was done in the early 2000s at UCLA that wanted to understand what happens in your brain when you experience social rejection, when you experience, say, the loss of a loved one, or someone that you really trusted or cared about betrays you, or think about even getting rejected by someone that you really care deeply about or in a relationship. And this is what we're talking about here: something called social pain. The study wanted to reveal what area of your brain fires when you experience a social pain? What marveled the researchers is that the same region of your brain that processes physical pain, so like breaking a bone or banging your head against the wall, overlaps the same region of your brain, that processes social pain. What does this all mean? Why is this so relevant? Pain is all the same in your brain. So this is a very crucial understanding as to how your brain evolved as a social…
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