Differences and similarities on neuronal activities of people being happily and unhappily in love: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study

Neuropsychobiology

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 52-60

  Stoessel, Christina ^a   Stiller, Juliane ^a   Bleich, Stefan ^a,c   Boensch, Dominikus ^a,b   Doerfler, Arnd ^a   Garcia, Meritxell ^a   Richter Schmidinger, Tanja ^a   Kornhuber, Johannes ^a   Forster, Clemens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy ^*  (Germany)

^c HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blood oxygen level dependency; Depression; Emotion; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Grief; Romantic love

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; LOVE; MALE; NERVE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LOVE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; QUESTIONNAIRES; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79956227401     PISSN: 0302282X     EISSN: 14230224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000325076     Document Type: Article

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