Love and attachment: The psychobiology of social bonding

CNS Spectrums

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 239-242

  Stein, Dan J ^a,b   Vythilingum, Bavanisha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; OPIATE; OXYTOCIN; SEROTONIN; VASOPRESSIN; BIOGENIC AMINE; NEUROHYPOPHYSIS HORMONE;

ADULT; BEHAVIOR; CASE REPORT; COGNITION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EROTOMANIA; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMAN; LOVE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOBIOLOGY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; PUTAMEN; REVIEW; SOCIAL INTERACTION; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; AFFECT; HISTOLOGY; MALE; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROPHARMACOLOGY; NEUROSCIENCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBJECT RELATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

AFFECT; BIOGENIC MONOAMINES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NEUROPHARMACOLOGY; NEUROSCIENCES; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PITUITARY HORMONES, POSTERIOR; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67649883168     PISSN: 10928529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1092852900025384     Document Type: Review

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