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  • The neurocircuitry for social pain actually draws on the neurocircuitry of physical pain—so you really do ache when you are lonely or a relationship ends.

    SO STRESSED William Kent Krueger 2010

  • By their very nature, addictions work beyond any mere “choice,” hijacking our natural reward neurocircuitry (the same thing that teaches you that stuff like food, water, and sleep are good).

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Ex-Blizzard Employee Divorces Husband Over WoW 2008

  • The neurocircuitry for social pain actually draws on the neurocircuitry of physical pain—so you really do ache when you are lonely or a relationship ends.

    SO STRESSED William Kent Krueger 2010

  • These findings should further point to a dedicated neurocircuitry mediating antipredator defensive behaviors.

    Brain Parasites 2007

  • KESSLER: Once you have that neurocircuitry, that old neurocircuitry laid down.

    CNN Transcript Aug 1, 2009 2009

  • The new study, published in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association, is the first to visually compare the neurocircuitry of memory both on and off estrogen.

    Hormones And The Mind 2008

  • These hormones appear to be implicated in social behaviors of many kinds and are part of what scientists have called the affiliative neurocircuitry, an intricate pattern of co-occurring and interacting pathways that influence many aspects of social behavior, ranging from whether people are receptive to social relationships at all to how strong their relationships will be.

    Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson 2004

  • These hormones appear to be implicated in social behaviors of many kinds and are part of what scientists have called the affiliative neurocircuitry, an intricate pattern of co-occurring and interacting pathways that influence many aspects of social behavior, ranging from whether people are receptive to social relationships at all to how strong their relationships will be.

    Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson 2004

  • These hormones appear to be implicated in social behaviors of many kinds and are part of what scientists have called the affiliative neurocircuitry, an intricate pattern of co-occurring and interacting pathways that influence many aspects of social behavior, ranging from whether people are receptive to social relationships at all to how strong their relationships will be.

    Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson 2004

  • These hormones appear to be implicated in social behaviors of many kinds and are part of what scientists have called the affiliative neurocircuitry, an intricate pattern of co-occurring and interacting pathways that influence many aspects of social behavior, ranging from whether people are receptive to social relationships at all to how strong their relationships will be.

    Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson 2004

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