The neural basis of romantic love
The neural basis of romantic love
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DOI：
10.1097/00001756-200011270-00046
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发表时间：
2000-11-27
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影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
Zeki, S
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作者：
Bartels, A;Zeki, S
许多情绪状态的神经相关性已经被研究过了，最近的研究是通过功能磁共振成像技术进行的。然而，我们对唤起浪漫爱情这种最强烈的情感状态的神经基质一无所知，我们在这里报告。17名深陷爱河的受试者在观看伴侣照片时，大脑的活动被使用功能磁共振成像扫描，并与观看三个年龄相仿的朋友的照片所产生的活动进行比较，性别和友谊的持续时间。活动仅限于内侧核和前扣带回皮质的病灶，以及皮质下尾状核和壳核的病灶，均为双侧。在扣带回后部和杏仁核中观察到失活，并且在前额叶、顶叶和中颞叶皮层中右侧化。这些部位的组合与以前的情感研究不同，这表明一个独特的区域网络负责唤起这种情感状态。这让我们假设，大脑皮层的功能专门化原则也适用于情感状态。NeuroReport 11：3829-3834（C）2000 Lippincott威廉姆斯和威尔金斯。
The neural correlates of many emotional states have been studied, most recently through the technique of fMRI. However, nothing is known about the neural substrates involved in evoking one of the most overwhelming of all affective states, that of romantic love, about which we report here, The activity in the brains of 17 subjects who were deeply in love was scanned using fMRI, while they viewed pictures of their partners, and compared with the activity produced by viewing pictures of three friends of similar age, sex and duration of friendship as their partners. The activity was restricted to foci in the medial insula and the anterior cingulate cortex and, subcortically, in the caudate nucleus and the putamen, all bilaterally. Deactivations were observed in the posterior cingulate gyrus and in the amygdala and were right-lateralized in the prefrontal, parietal and middle temporal cortices. The combination of these sites differs from those in previous studies of emotion, suggesting that a unique network of areas is responsible for evoking this affective state. This leads us to postulate that the principle of functional specialization in the cortex applies to affective states as well. NeuroReport 11:3829-3834 (C) 2000 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.