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·September 19, 2023·5 min read

Mapping Love: Study Charts How Love Feels in Our Bodies

Researchers unveiled a groundbreaking "map" of how different types of love are physically and mentally experienced throughout the body. Through a survey involving 27 distinct love forms, results showed a continuum from weaker to stronger love sensations.

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·January 27, 2023·6 min read

Fresh Questions About Oxytocin as the ‘Love Hormone’ Behind Pair Bonding

The "love hormone" oxytocin may not play as critical a role in bonding as previously believed. Removing the oxytocin receptor in animal models still resulted in monogamous mating, attachment, and parental bonding behaviors, although females without the receptor produced milk in smaller quantities. Findings reveal parenting and bonding aren't purely dictated by oxytocin receptors.

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·July 17, 2022·6 min read

Why Does Love Feel Magical? It’s an Evolutionary Advantage

Magical thinking and believing in destined love may have evolved as a way to keep couples together and promote childbirth and rearing, researchers say.

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·December 27, 2020·6 min read

Love and Hate in the Brain

Activity in the medial preoptic area tilts the mouse brain toward love and affection, while activity in the ventromedial hypothalamus is associated with more aggressive or hateful acts.

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·May 22, 2020·5 min read

Wired for marriage: The neural and genetic links to romantic love

Researchers have identified both genetic and neural mechanisms associated with romantic love and attachment. The maintenance of romantic love is not only associated with subcortical brain regions but also higher-order centers of the brain. The propensity to sustain romantic love appears to also be affected by genetic variability, specifically with genes associated with dopamine, vasopressin, and oxytocin.

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·February 14, 2020·1 min read

Can you be addicted to being in love?

Researchers explore the similarities between being in love and addiction.

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·February 13, 2020·6 min read

Love: is it just a fleeting high fueled by brain chemicals?

Study looks at the psychology and neurobiology of attraction and love.

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·February 18, 2018·5 min read

Love and Fear Are Visible Across the Brain, Not Restricted to One Region

A new study reports basic emotions, such as happiness and anger, are not limited to specific regions, but have distinct connectivity patterns that encompass much of the brain.