Romantic and maternal love are highly rewarding … Yet almost nothing is known about their
neural correlates in the human. … The activity specific to maternal attachment was compared to …

… neural correlates of long-term romantic love and attachment by applying fMRI to a group of
long-term happily married, sexually monogamous individuals reporting intense romantic love …

… neural correlates of maternal love and behavior. Some studies (2, 3, 4) have shown the neural
correlates of maternal love by investigating the mother’s … the neural correlates of maternal …

… Functional neuroimaging studies have shown that romantic love and maternal love are
mediated by regions specific to each, as well as overlapping regions in the brain's reward system…

… In a recent fMRI study investigating the neural correlates of long-term intense passionate
love … In 2004, Bartels and Zeki conducted an fMRI study on maternal love and compared the …

… behavior, but not be fully captured by other aspects of maternal behavior, underlining the
importance of identifying neural correlates distinct from those attributable to mere maternal over…

… the neural underpinnings of longterm romantic love using … with earlystage romantic love
(Aron et al., 2005; Bartels & Zeki, 2000). … questions, the neural correlates of individuals intensely …

… How do neural correlates to romantic love overlap with or differ from … For example, Bartels
and Zeki excluded one mother who reported being angry at her partner at the time of the …

… fMRI studies; one study investigated the neural correlates of early-stage romantic love and
the other for maternal love (Bartels and Zeki 2000, 2004). In both studies participants were …

… investigate the neural correlates of individuals’ sexual desires for specific people, such
as … Yet Bartels and Zeki only found hypothalamic and VTA activation for romantic love (…