Love-related changes in the brain: A resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging study

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue FEB, 2015, Pages

  Song, Hongwen ^a   Zou, Zhiling ^a   Kou, Juan ^a   Liu, Yang ^a   Yang, Lizhuang ^b   Zilverstand, Anna ^c   Uquillas, Federico D’Oleire ^c   Zhang, Xiaochu ^b  

^a SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC); Functional connectivity (FC); Nucleus accumbens; Posterior cingulate cortex (PCC); Regional homogeneity (ReHo); Resting state fMRI (rsfMRI); Romantic love; Temporo parietal junction (TPJ)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL ANTERIOR CINGULATE CORTEX; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; INSULA; LOVE; LOVELORN; MALE; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MOTIVATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRECUNEUS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REGIONAL HOMOGENEITY; RESTING STATE FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REWARD; ROMANTIC LOVE; SOCIAL COGNITION; TEMPOROPARIETAL JUNCTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84933672029     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00071     Document Type: Article

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