Romantic love is a motivational state associated with a desire to enter or maintain a close
relationship with a specific other person. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)�…

Romantic love is a complex state that has been seen as similar to addiction. Previous task-
based functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies have shown that being in love�…

Objective Previous neuroimaging studies on romantic love have focused on determining
how the visual stimuli that serve as a representation of loved ones induce the neural�…

Introduction Brain imaging is becoming a powerful tool in the study of human cerebral
functions related to close personal relationships. Outside of subcortical structures�…

Introduction One of the most difficult dilemmas in relationship science and couple therapy
concerns the interaction between sexual desire and love. As two mental states of intense�…

Early-stage romantic love is associated with activation in reward and motivation systems of
the brain. Can these localized activations, or others, predict long-term relationship stability�…

Background: Brain activity was studied in grief following frustrated love compared to
romantic love, and it was hypothesized that unhappy lovers compared to happy lovers would�…

Maternal and passionate love are both crucial for reproduction and involve attachment
behaviors with high rewards. Neurobiological studies of attachment in animal and human�…

Although philosophers, psychologists, artists, and poets have been interested in the nature
and origin of passionate love throughout the ages, only in the 1960s have social�…

The present study examined the neural correlates of long-term intense romantic love using
functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Ten women and 7 men married an average�…