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ion of the species, and consequently have a closely linked biological function of crucial evolutionary importance," said Andreas Bartels, of UCL's Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience. "Yet almost nothing is known about their neural correlates in the human.

"Our research enables us to conclude that human attachment employs a push-pull mechanism that overcomes social distance by deactivating networks used for critical social assessment and negative emotions, while it bonds individuals through the involvement of the reward circuitry (regions in the brain that induce euphoric feelings), explaining the power of love to motivate and exhilerate."

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Contact: Dominique Fourniol
d.fourniol@ucl.ac.uk
44-207-679-9728
University College London
13-Feb-2004

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