A recent study using fMRI investigated how different types of love activate distinct brain regions. Researchers found that romantic love, parental love, friendship, love for strangers, and love for nature each trigger unique patterns of brain activity.
Romantic and parental love show widespread activation of the brain's emotional centers.The Signature Courses at UT Austin are a form of required course for all undergraduate students on a variety of topics, giving first-year students an opportunity to closely interact with professors on a topic of expertise or interest to that faculty. My Signature Course, which I have been teaching for many years now, is titled"Love,, and the Brain.
In my many interactions with this student, I clearly failed to articulate a central tenet of love and the brain: different brain regions are involved in different aspects of love and in the regulation of different forms of love. I owed it to this student to provide her with greater guidance as she navigated her class’s final paper.
The study found that while all forms of love activated brain regions associated with emotions and reward, different types of love engaged distinct, and social bonding. These included the striatum, amygdala, and thalamus, as well as areas involved in social cognition, such as the medial prefrontal cortex and temporoparietal junction.
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