The neural basis of unconditional love

Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging

Volumn 172, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 93-98

  Beauregard, Mario ^a,b,c   Courtemanche, Jérôme ^a,c   Paquette, Vincent ^a,c   St Pierre, Évelyne Landry ^a  

^a CENTRE DE RECHERCHE EN NEUROPSYCHOLOGIE ET COGNITION   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c CENTRE DE RECHERCHE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Reward system; Unconditional love

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN REGION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CINGULATE GYRUS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMOTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HUMAN; INSULA; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; LOVE; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LOVE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; OXYGEN; REWARD;

EID: 63449132307     PISSN: 09254927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2008.11.003     Document Type: Article

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