Written on 15-02-2021

New research suggests that when social animals, like people, are deprived of positive social interactions, they begin to crave it—similarly to how they crave foods they are denied. In fact, both feelings of absence—of social connection and food—activate the same tiny part of the brain, the substantia nigra.

Read this interesting article “Loneliness and hunger share a home in the brain” to know more.