Pleasure is mediated by well-developed mesocorticolimbic circuitry and serves adaptive
functions. In affective disorders, anhedonia (lack of pleasure) or dysphoria (negative affect)�…

Introduction Pleasure and reward are generated by brain circuits that are largely shared
between humans and other animals. Discussion Here, we survey some fundamental topics�…

Love is a complex neurobiological phenomenon, relying on trust, belief, pleasure and
reward activities within the brain, ie, limbic processes. These processes critically involve�…

Men are generally more interested in and responsive to visual sexually arousing stimuli than
are women. Here we used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to show that the�…

Romantic love is a phenomenon of immense interest to the general public as well as to
scholars in several disciplines. It is known to be present in almost all human societies and�…

We aimed to investigate the neural correlates associated with judgments of a positive self-
conscious emotion, pride, and elucidate the difference between pride and a basic positive�…

Across human societies, people form long-term romantic bonds that can last a lifetime. Many
theorists have proposed that the emotion love plays a causal role in maintaining these�…

Drawing on recent claims in the study of relationships, attachment, and emotion, the authors
hypothesized that romantic love serves a commitment-related function and sexual desire a�…

This review will focus on a motivational circuit in the brain, centered on the amygdala, that
underlies human emotion. This neural circuitry of appetitive/approach and�…

Recent human functional imaging studies have linked the processing of pleasant visual
stimuli to activity in mesolimbic reward structures. However, whether the activation is driven�…