The neural correlates of maternal and romantic love
The neural correlates of maternal and romantic love
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DOI：
10.1016/j.neuroimage.2003.11.003
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发表时间：
2004-03-01
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影响因子：
5.7
通讯作者：
Zeki, S
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作者：
Bartels, A;Zeki, S
浪漫和母爱是非常有益的经历。两者都与物种的延续有关，因此具有密切相关的生物功能，具有至关重要的进化意义。然而，几乎没有人知道他们在人类的神经相关。因此，我们使用功能性磁共振成像来测量母亲们在观看自己和熟悉的孩子的照片时的大脑活动，以及作为额外控制的最好的朋友和熟悉的成年人的照片。我们将母亲依恋特有的活动与我们早期研究中描述的浪漫爱情相关的活动以及其他研究建立的依恋介导神经激素的分布进行了比较。这两种依恋都激活了各自的特定区域，以及大脑奖励系统中与催产素和加压素受体丰富区域相重叠的区域。两者都使一组与消极情绪、社会判断和“心理化”（即对他人意图和情绪的评估）相关的共同区域失活。我们的结论是，人类依恋采用推拉机制，通过停用用于关键社会评估和负面情绪的网络来克服社会距离，同时通过参与奖励电路将个体联系在一起，解释了爱激励和兴奋的力量。(C)2004年爱思唯尔公司All rights reserved.
Romantic and maternal love are highly rewarding experiences. Both are linked to the perpetuation of the species and therefore have a closely linked biological function of crucial evolutionary importance. Yet almost nothing is known about their neural correlates in the human. We therefore used fMRI to measure brain activity in mothers while they viewed pictures of their own and of acquainted children, and of their best friend and of acquainted adults as additional controls. The activity specific to maternal attachment was compared to that associated to romantic love described in our earlier study and to the distribution of attachment-mediating neurohormones established by other studies. Both types of attachment activated regions specific to each, as well as overlapping regions in the brain's reward system that coincide with areas rich in oxytocin and vasopressin receptors. Both deactivated a common set of regions associated with negative emotions, social judgment and 'mentalizing', that is, the assessment of other people's intentions and emotions. We conclude that human attachment employs a push-pull mechanism that overcomes social distance by deactivating networks used for critical social assessment and negative emotions, while it bonds individuals through the involvement of the reward circuitry, explaining the power of love to motivate and exhilarate. (C) 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.