Have you ever fallen in Love?

Do we need to fell in love? Why do we think about our

beloved? Why love make us energetic? How music control our emotions? Can we trust on our love feelings? When we look at our beloved what

is happening in our brain? Is wanting and liking differrent?

Activated areas

2000•the medial insula•the anterior cingulate cortex•subcortically, in the caudate nucleus•the putamen

Deactivated areas

2ooo •posterior cingulate gyrus•the amygdala•right-lateralized in the prefrontal,parietal and middle temporal cortices.

Neither activeat nor deactivated

visual area(occipital lobe or in the fusiform

gyrus)which is involved in various aspects of visual facerecognition including attention to faces. Familiar Face: Higher activity!! Unfamiliar Face: Left insula Frontal lobe: known and unknown person the amygdaloid region: more active when viewing

friends than the loved partner lateral fusiform gyrus (FG):Atenttion to the face Activation in the leftventral tegmental : with facial attractiveness scores Motor activity??????

Touch and Love ‘limbic touch’ : somatosensorycortices activates directly the middle insula,

evoking pleasantfeelings of touch regulating ‘emotional, hormonal and

affiliative responses

Like or want? Like:Left VTA activation was specifically

associated with a face deemed esthetically pleasing

Want:Right VTA activation increased during

presentation of a face that participants would work to see longer (wanting

Happiness and Sadness Dopamine

Deactivations in the right prefrontal(sadness) and bilateral parietal and temporal cortices

Love Hurts? anterior cingulate

cortex (ACC) right temporo-

parietal junction (rTPJ).

Brain oscilation Alpha, theta, delta and beta

oscillations Reticular formation (RF) The hippocampus (HI) The thalamus Sensory cortices Memory task : alpha and theta

oscillatory activity Bad and Good Memory?

Facial expression: alpha and theta oscillatory activity

Increase in delta oscillation in occipital lobe?

Perception of the subject's own grandmother: superposition of delta, theta, alpha, beta, and gamma oscillations

Neuro-endocrine Vasopressin

Oxytocin increases trust by decreasing social fear

CD 38+

Unconditional love "Agape" love

Subject Study: l’Arche communities Empathy: an affective response that stems from the apprehension of another's

emotional state (e.g., sadness, happiness, pain), and which is comparable to what the other person is feeling.

Compassionrefers to an awareness of the suffering of another coupled with thedesire to alleviate that suffering Activation Areas: the periaqueductal gray matter of themidbrain (PAG) BA 13 of the middle insula

Nuclues accumbens VTA

pleasant music

cocaine activate the VTA

alcohol

Chocolate nucleus accumbens/subcallosal region and VTA

Money nucleus accumbens/subcallosal region and VTA

Neuro-realism: fMRI enables us to capture a ‘visual proof’ of brain

activity

Neuro-essentialism: Equating subjectivity and personal identity to the

brain Shortcut for moreglobal concepts such as the person, the individual or theself

Love…feel miss….sacrifice!

Soul

Psychological

Social