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�…

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

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�…

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

Romantic and maternal love are highly rewarding experiences. Both are linked to the
perpetuation of the species and therefore have a closely linked biological function of crucial�…

Throughout history, artists, poets, and writers have been interested in the nature of
passionate love, sexual desire, and sexual behavior. In the 1960s, social psychologists and�…

Romantic and maternal love are highly rewarding experiences. Both are linked to the
perpetuation of the species and therefore have a closely linked biological function of crucial�…

We review recent neuroimaging research on the experiences of romantic love and sexual
desire, focusing specifically on the question of links and distinctions between the brain�…

Who do we love? Who loves us? And why? Is love really a mystery, or can neuroscience
offer some answers to these age-old questions? In her third enthralling book about the brain�…

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