Koban Lab

Research focus

ERC Starting Grant · 2021

Towards a social neuroscience of health-related decision-making

Social relationships have important effects on health and disease. Our interactions with others, feelings of social isolation versus connection, and perceived social norms influence behavior, physiology, and even mortality. Yet, an ongoing challenge is to understand the brain mechanisms underlying social context effects on human health, which could ultimately enable us to use neuroimaging to predict psychosocial risk factors and individual vulnerability to unhealthy lifestyle. I propose to address this challenge, by testing how social norms and social relationships influence food and alcohol craving and health-related decision-making. Paralleling my recently developed brain signature of…

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