The neural correlates of maternal and romantic love

NeuroImage

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1155-1166

  Bartels, Andreas ^a   Zeki, Semir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Attachment; Dopamine; Faces; fMRI; Insula; Love; Maternal; Oxytocin; Reward; Romantic; Striatum; Theory of mind; Vasopressin

Indexed keywords

NEUROHORMONE; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; VASOPRESSIN RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; FEMALE; FRIEND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOVE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTIVATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; SOCIAL ASPECT; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT; LOVE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MIDDLE AGED; NERVOUS SYSTEM PHYSIOLOGY; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; RECEPTORS, NEUROTRANSMITTER; REWARD; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 1542375963     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2003.11.003     Document Type: Article

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