The brain in love: Has neuroscience stolen the secret of love?

NeuroQuantology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 744-753

  Tarlaci, Sultan ^a  

^a Universal Special Health Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Dopamine; fMRI; Love; Maternal love; Neurobiology; Oxytocin; Passion; Romantic love; Vasopressin

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIN 3; NEUROTROPHIN 4; TESTOSTERONE;

BRAIN; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EMOTION; HEART; HOMO NEANDERTHALENSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; JEALOUS DELUSION; LIFE HISTORY; LOVE; MONOGAMY; NEUROSCIENCE; NONHUMAN; OBSESSION; PAIN; POLYGAMY; RELIGION; REVIEW; SCIENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 84871427450     PISSN: 13035150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14704/nq.2012.10.4.581     Document Type: Review

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