Social ties and health: a social neuroscience perspective

► Considerable research has shown strong relationships between social ties and health. ► Neural regions that process basic survival threats facilitate health-relevant physiological stress responses. ► Threats to social connection activate neural regions that process survival threats and elicit physiological stress responses. ► Neural regions that process safety signals inhibit health-relevant physiological stress responses. ► Having social support activates neural regions that process safety signals and inhibit physiological stress responses.