{"id":196350,"date":"2024-09-18T11:26:20","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T16:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/finding-love-study-reveals-where-love-lives-in-the-brain"},"modified":"2024-09-18T11:26:20","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T16:26:20","slug":"finding-love-study-reveals-where-love-lives-in-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/finding-love-study-reveals-where-love-lives-in-the-brain","title":{"rendered":"Finding Love: Study reveals Where Love Lives in the Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/finding-love-study-reveals-where-love-lives-in-the-brain.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have taken looking for love to a whole new level, revealing that different types of love light up different parts of the brain. We use the word \u2018love\u2019 in a bewildering range of contexts \u2013 from sexual adoration to parental love or the love of nature. Now, more comprehensive imaging of the brain may shed light on why we use the same word for such a diverse collection of human experiences.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018You see your newborn child for the first time. The baby is soft, healthy and hearty \u2013 your life\u2019s greatest wonder. You feel love for the little one.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The above statement was one of many simple scenarios presented to fifty-five parents, self-described as being in a loving relationship. Researchers from Aalto University utilised functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure brain activity while subjects mulled brief stories related to six different types of love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have taken looking for love to a whole new level, revealing that different types of love light up different parts of the brain. We use the word \u2018love\u2019 in a bewildering range of contexts \u2013 from sexual adoration to parental love or the love of nature. Now, more comprehensive imaging of the brain may [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}