Zeki, S;
Romaya, JP;
(2010)
The Brain Reaction to Viewing Faces of Opposite- and Same-Sex Romantic Partners.
PLOS ONE
, 5
(12)
, Article e15802. 10.1371/journal.pone.0015802.
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Abstract
We pursued our functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies of the neural correlates of romantic love in 24 subjects, half of whom were female (6 heterosexual and 6 homosexual) and half male (6 heterosexual and 6 homosexual). We compared the pattern of activity produced in their brains when they viewed the faces of their loved partners with that produced when they viewed the faces of friends of the same sex to whom they were romantically indifferent. The pattern of activation and de-activation was very similar in the brains of males and females, and heterosexuals and homosexuals. We could therefore detect no difference in activation patterns between these groups.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Brain Reaction to Viewing Faces of Opposite- and Same-Sex Romantic Partners |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0015802 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0015802 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2010 Zeki, Romaya. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. This work was supported by the Wellcome Trust, London. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. |
| Keywords: | HETEROSEXUAL MEN, HOMOSEXUAL-MEN, DOPAMINE, LOVE, ACTIVATION, SEROTONIN, REWARD, NOREPINEPHRINE, CEREBELLUM, STIMULI |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences > Cell and Developmental Biology |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1319261 |
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