Share of Cost, Imaging Study Shows Love Can Last

Thursday, Jun. 2nd 2011 6:55 AM

Can science prove that romantic love can last? A new study led by Bianca Acevedo, Ph.D., and Arthur Aron, Ph.D., of the Department of Psychology at Stony Brook University, and colleagues, compared the neural correlates of long-term married and in love individuals with individuals who had recently fallen in love. They discovered highly similar brain activity in regions associated with reward, motivation and “wanting” in both sets of couples.

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