Understanding Loneliness in Brain Injury: Linking the Reaffiliation Motive Model of Loneliness With a Model of Executive Impairment

Front Integr Neurosci. 2022 Jul 14:16:883746. doi: 10.3389/fnint.2022.883746. eCollection 2022.

Christopher Byrne^{1

2}, Christian E Salas^{3

4}, Rudi Coetzer^{1

5

6}, Richard Ramsey⁷

¹ School of Human Behavioural Sciences, Bangor University, Bangor, United Kingdom.
² North Wales Brain Injury Service, Colwyn Bay Hospital, Colwyn Bay, United Kingdom.
³ Centre for Research in Human Neuroscience and Neuropsychology, Faculty of Psychology, Diego Portales University, Santiago, Chile.
⁴ Clinical Neuropsychology Unit, Faculty of Psychology, Diego Portales University, Santiago, Chile.
⁵ College of Human and Health Sciences, Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom.
⁶ The Disabilities Trust, Wakefield, United Kingdom.
⁷ Department of Psychology, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

No abstract available

Keywords: acquired brain injury (ABI); executive impairments; loneliness; neuropsychological rehabilitation; social isolation.