The Neurobiology of Human Attachments

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 80-99

  Feldman, Ruth ^a,b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROIMAGING;

ANIMAL RESEARCH; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; CONSPECIFICS; CORTICAL NETWORK; STRIATUM; TIME SENSITIVITY;

MAMMALS;

DOPAMINE; OXYTOCIN;

ART; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; HUMANITIES; KNOWLEDGE; LOVE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL CARE; MATERNAL STRESS; MOTIVATION; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; REWARD; SCIENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; ANIMAL; BRAIN; NEUROIMAGING; OBJECT RELATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; HUMANS; LOVE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROIMAGING; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; OXYTOCIN;

EID: 85009473280     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: 1879307X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2016.11.007     Document Type: Review

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