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PERSPECTIVES ON PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
Volume 10, Issue 2, Pages 238-249Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/1745691615570616
Keywords
medical neuroscience; social neuroscience; loneliness; pain; biomarkers
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- Department of the Army, Defense Medical Research and Development Program [W81XWH-11-2-0114]
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In 1978, when the Task Panel report to the U.S. President's Commission on Mental Health emphasized the importance of improving health care and easing the pain of those suffering from emotional distress syndromes including loneliness, few anticipated that this issue would still need to be addressed 40 years later. In 2011, a meta-analysis on the efficacy of treatments to reduce loneliness identified a need for well-controlled randomized clinical trials focusing on the rehabilitation of maladaptive social cognition. We review assessments of loneliness and build on this meta-analysis to discuss the efficacy of various treatments for loneliness. With the advances made over the past 5 years in the identification of the psychobiological and pharmaceutical mechanisms associated with loneliness and maladaptive social cognition, there is increasing evidence for the potential efficacy of integrated interventions that combine (social) cognitive behavioral therapy with short-term adjunctive pharmacological treatments.
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