The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
So all of that of course is flowing into the nervous system, but the detector that underlies social homeostasis involves mainly two structures, one is called the ACC, the anterior cingulate cortex, and the other is the BLA, basal lateral amygdala.
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And there's a reason why the basal lateral amygdala, which is associated with certain aspects of aversive behaviors, meaning moving away from certain types of things or interactions, there's a reason why the BLA is such an integral part of the detector system, and that's because just as it's important to form healthy social bonds, it's vitally important to try and avoid unhealthy social bonds.