Study explains how brain maps our interpersonal ties

WASHINGTON DC: The closer you feel to people emotionally, the more similarly you represent them in your brain, while, people who feel social disconnection tend to have a lonelier, neural self-representation, according to a recent study. The findings of the Dartmouth study are published in the Journal of Neuroscience. "If we had a stamp of neural activity that reflected your self-representation and one that reflected that of people whom you are close to, for most of us, our stamps of...