TY  - JOUR
AV  - public
IS  - 12
N2  - 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.
KW  - HETEROSEXUAL MEN
KW  -  HOMOSEXUAL-MEN
KW  -  DOPAMINE
KW  -  LOVE
KW  -  ACTIVATION
KW  -  SEROTONIN
KW  -  REWARD
KW  -  NOREPINEPHRINE
KW  -  CEREBELLUM
KW  -  STIMULI
SN  - 1932-6203
A1  - Zeki, S
A1  - Romaya, JP
PB  - PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
VL  - 5
JF  - PLOS ONE
N1  - © 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.
TI  - The Brain Reaction to Viewing Faces of Opposite- and Same-Sex Romantic Partners
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0015802
Y1  - 2010/12/31/
ID  - discovery1319261
ER  -