Love and the Brain

Scientists reveal how the brain responds to six different types of love

Recent neuroimaging research found that different types of love activate distinct brain regions. This suggests that our emotional ...

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

Scientists have uncovered how the brain's far-reaching Behavioral Activation System, along with chemical drivers, can override other ...

What happens in our brain and body when we're in love?

Dopamine stimulates the reward pathways and increases motivation and obsessive thoughts and behaviours to pursue the love interest.

Love lights up your brain and helps your heart, but whether it lasts ...

How much pleasure you get from love, and how motivated you are to attain and sustain it, partly comes down to genetics.

What Happens to Your Brain When You Fall in Love - PureWow

Hafeez explains that the regions of the brain involved in love are the amygdala, the hypothalamus, the nucleus accumbens and the prefrontal cortex.

Love on the Brain – Grey Matters Emory - ScholarBlogs

Love truly has an effect on the brain, mediated by a variety of hormones, neurotransmitters, and brain activations.

Brain Love (@brainlove_official) • Instagram photos and videos

At @brainlove_official, we are storytellers through fashion, and we pour our hearts into every collection, hoping that individuals can feel the genuine love and ...

The Neuroscience of Love – Emotion, Brain, & Behavior Laboratory

The experience of romantic love is headed by three major neuromodulators: dopamine, oxytocin, and vasopressin (Debiec, 2007). Dopamine is the ...

This is your brain on love | University of California

UC love experts discuss the science behind romance. To solve the mysteries of the heart, look no further than the human brain, say three UC researchers.

Appliance of Science: The brain in love - Irish Examiner

The heart may be the main organ associated with love but it's the brain that really does all the work in riding the roller coaster of ...

The Brain, Love, and ADHD: What's really going on inside our heads?

Now let's look at the overlaps in biology for brains on love and ADHD. The most fascinating overlaps occur during the attraction phase (the new ...

What does love do to your brain? | Live Science

Wherever it encounters cells that have oxytocin receptors—adrenal glands, uterus, breasts, and brain—it binds and activates those receptors. The ...

I Love You With My Whole Brain: The Neuroscience of Love

Love really resides in the brain. Surges of different neurotransmitters give rise to the emotional whirlwind that characterizes the early stages of romantic ...

The Anatomy Of Love

Since then, Fisher has conducted pioneering brain research on lust, romantic love, and attachment; gathered data on more than 80,000 people to explain why you ...

How Your Brain Gets Hooked on Love | "Romantic love is an addiction

Video Transcript. Romantic love is one of the most addictive substances on earth. I and my colleagues Art Aaron and Lucy Brown and others have ...

Love and the Brain - Neuroscience - Exploring the Brain

Love and the Brain · - Article written by Zeynep Arat · Love is Controlled by the Brain · Did you know that your brain was responsible for all ...

Here's What Being In Love Does to Your Brain, Says New Study

Falling in love is known to trigger remarkable changes in the brain. Now, scientists are unraveling this phenomenon and how it affects us.

The Brain in Love | Esselman Counseling Services

“Fire runs through my body with the pain of loving you. Pain runs through my body with the fires of my love for you. Pain like a boil about to ...

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

A leading neurosurgeon explains the role that our senses play in each stage of love, from lust to attachment.

Love's Location in Our Brain Depends on The Target of Our Affection

Researchers have now used brain scans to reveal how each of these different types of 'love' have a distinct home in our minds.