Individuals in the early stage of intense romantic love show many symptoms of substance
and non-substance or behavioral addictions, including euphoria, craving, tolerance�…

Aims: Inquiry regarding the relationship between passionate love and addiction has long
been a topic of intense debate. Recent advances in neurobiology now allow for an�…

Early-stage romantic love can induce euphoria, is a cross-cultural phenomenon, and is
possibly a developed form of a mammalian drive to pursue preferred mates. It has an�…

Although sexual desire and romantic love are often experienced in concert, they are
fundamentally distinct subjective experiences with distinct neurobiological substrates. The�…

Recent research suggests that romantic love may sometimes be literally addictive. Although
the exact nature of the relationship between love and addiction has been described in�…

Love, attachment, and truth of human monogamy have become important research themes
in neuroscience. After the introduction of functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) and�…

Rationale Love has long been referred to as an addiction in literature and poetry. Scientists
have often made comparisons between social attachment processes and drug addiction�…

Early‐stage romantic love has been studied previously in the United States and United
Kingdom (Aron et al.[2005]: J Neurophysiol 94: 327–337; Bartels and Zeki [2000]�…

Scientists have described myriad traits in mammalian and avian species that evolved to
attract mates. But the brain mechanisms by which conspecifics become attracted to these�…

A fresh, updated, and expanded edition of the book that changed the way we think about
romance and intimacy. Many of us confuse longing and obsession with true love. Through�…