Study Identifies Where the Brain Feels Love

The neural basis of unconditional love - ScienceDirect.com

To date, a few functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies have been conducted to identify the brain regions mediating romantic love ...

Neurochemical evidence that long-lasting love is possible

The study also showed differences between the brain activities of both groups. Those in new relationships showed activity in the regions related ...

What Part of the Brain Controls Emotions? - Healthline

It may sound strange, but the beginnings of romantic love are associated with the stress response triggered by your hypothalamus. It makes more ...

Love: it's all the same to the brain | UCL News

The study, by Professor Semir Zeki and John Romaya from the Wellcome Laboratory of Neurobiology at UCL, is a continuation of earlier work from ...

Researchers Identify Area Of The Brain That Processes Empathy

This most recent study, however, firmly establishes that the anterior insular cortex is where the feeling of empathy originates. "Now that we know the specific ...

This is what emotions look like in your brain - CNN

Researchers at Duke University's Center for Cognitive Neuroscience asked study participants to rest and think about nothing in particular while ...

Finding love: Study reveals where love lives in the brain | ScienceDaily

Researchers have taken looking for love to a whole new level, revealing that different types of love light up different parts of the brain.

Your Brain and Five Senses: The Science Behind Falling in Love

“That's why we need all five of our senses to work in unison to help us identify desirable characteristics and guide us toward that perfect ...

In a first, study finds just how romantic love rewires the brain

Researchers from ANU, the University of Canberra and University of South Australia (UniSA) have assessed 1,556 young adults who identified as ...

Romantic Love: An fMRI study of a neural mechanism for mate choice.

imaging studies. Brain Res Rev 36:139-149. Mashek D, Aron A, Fisher HE. 2000. Identifying, evoking, and measuring intense feelings of romantic love.

Study reveals how the brain assesses romantic love compatibility

The research, which was recently published in Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, used electroencephalography (EEG) to measure brain ...

Exploring the dog–human relationship by combining fMRI, eye ...

Regardless of emotion, viewing the caregiver activated brain regions associated with emotion and attachment processing in humans. In contrast, ...

The Brain on Love - The New York Times Web Archive

Siegel, a neuropsychiatrist, refers to the indelible sense of “feeling felt” that we learn as infants and seek in romantic love, a reciprocity ...

The Brain in Love: Has Neuroscience Stolen the Secret of Love?

... Reviews of these studies conclude that love is accompanied by significantly increased activation in brain regions such as the ventral ...

Neural correlates of long-term intense romantic love

Overall, results suggest that for some individuals the reward-value associated with a long-term partner may be sustained, similar to new love, ...

This is your brain on love - NBC News

Earlier research showed that the cognitive areas of the brain stimulated by love are related to self-image, which may explain the expressions of ...

Chapter 4 - Neuroimaging of Love in the Twenty-first Century

Neuroimaging research in rodents suggests that love has a similar brain signature to drugs like alcohol or cocaine – subjecting the ...

Love in the Lab: How Scientists Study Affection - BrainFacts

Research in animals and humans is helping to identify brain processes that are active when people are “in love.”

What is love – and is it all in the mind? | Relationships - The Guardian

Their work showed that romantic love causes a surge of activity in brain areas that are rich in dopamine, the brain's feelgood chemical. These ...

Love really does change how the brain works - Study Finds

Scientists in Australia have found that love really does scramble the human brain on a neurological level. While prior studies have established ...