The neural basis of romantic love

By Andreas M. Bartels, Semir Zeki. NeuroReport, 2000

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology

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An upward spiral: Bidirectional associations between positive affect and positive aspects of close relationships across the life span (2015, background): “…and motivation brain regions Viewed picture of partner vs. familiar other Feelings of romantic love Interview assessing duration, intensity, and range of romantic love – – Bartels and Zeki (2000) O, E 17 21–37 (M = 24.5) Activity in reward and motivation brain regions Viewed picture of…”
Meditation states and traits: EEG, ERP, and neuroimaging studies. (2006, background): “Besides the importance of anterior cingulate cortex activation as a marker of the increased attentional focus in meditative states, this structure also appears related to feelings of love (Bartels & Zeki, 2000, 2004).”
The power of one: benefits of individual self-expansion (2013, background): “Self-expansion is associated with approach motivation (Mattingly et al., 2012) and the reward centers of the brain (Bartels & Zeki, 2000; Fisher et al., 2010).”
The X- and C-Systems: The Neural Basis of Automatic and Controlled Social Cognition. (2007, background): “Finally, the ventral striatum, another subregion of the basal ganglia, has been linked to positive affective responses to stimuli ranging from drugs, to money, to pictures of romantic partners (Bartels & Zeki, 2000; Breiter et al., 1997; Zalla et al., 2000).”
Which Emotions Are Basic (2007, background): “Bartels and Zeki (2000) found similar activations when subjects”
Reward, motivation, and emotion systems associated with early-stage intense romantic love. (2005, methodology): “Because our participants were in love for a shorter amount of time than those in the study done by Bartels and Zeki (2000), we correlated degree of activation and participant’s reported length of time in love.”
Evolutionary neuromarketing: darwinizing the neuroimaging paradigm for consumer behavior (2008, result): “This is supported by other neuroimaging studies on the neural correlates of romantic love (Bartels and Zeki, 2000, 2004) and emotional systems associated with early stage romantic love (Aron et al., 2005).”
The social re-orientation of adolescence: a neuroscience perspective on the process and its relation to psychopathology (2005, background): “…is that adolescent social re-orientation can be attributed to alterations in processing of social stimuli within the SIPN that occur as a result of hormones, the maturation of neuronal processes, and learning (i.e. the laying down of new local networks within this system as a result of experience).”
Functional connectivity mapping of the human precuneus by resting state fMRI (2012, result): “Other studies reported that the putamen and dorsal caudate activated, while ventral precuneus deactivated to positive emotions (Bartels and Zeki, 2000, 2004).”
Orbitofrontal cortex tracks positive mood in mothers viewing pictures of their newborn infants (2004, positive): “Other attempts to elicit positive emotion within the constraints of neuroimaging environments have measured responses to pleasant stimuli presented in various sensory modalities (Anderson et al., 2003; Bartels and Zeki, 2000; Garavan et al., 2001; Hamann and Mao, 2002; Hamann et al., 2002; Lane et a”
Familiarity matters: A review on prioritized processing of personally familiar faces (2018, background): “…become familiar through extensive exposure under naturalistic conditions in real life settings (e.g., Arsalidou, Barbeau, Bayless, & Taylor, 2010; Bartels & Zeki, 2000; Bartels & Zeki, 2004; Bobes, Lage Castellanos, Quinones, Garcia, & Valdes-Sosa, 2013; Chauhan et al., 2017; Gobbini et al.,…”
Self-esteem, locus of control, hippocampal volume, and cortisol regulation in young and old adulthood (2005, background): “…by significant others, all of which are coping strategies employed by high selfesteem and locus of control individuals to maintain a positive mood and positive self-concept (Bartels and Zeki, 2000; Crocker and Park, 2003; Dodgson and Wood, 1998; Linville, 1987; Setliff and Marmurek, 2002).”
Reflexive and reflective judgment processes: A social cognitive neuroscience approach. (2003, background): “There is a tendency for us to believe that the same kinds of underlying symbolic representations are used regardless of the automaticity of their use in terms of effort, intention, and awareness (Smith, 1996).”
Social buffering: relief from stress and anxiety (2006, background): “…that visual information transmits social buffering signals and stimulates its effects; recent imaging studies have indicated that pictures of the face of a loved one or of one’s own children deactivate the amygdaloid nucleus, which controls fear-related responses (Bartels & Zeki 2000, 2004).”