大腦中的激情之愛,MRI掃描揭示 [網路獨家圖文]

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十幾個大腦區域協同工作,產生激情之愛的感覺。雪城大學的斯蒂芬妮·奧爾蒂格和她在世界各地的同事比較了MRI研究,物件是那些表示自己正處於戀愛中或體驗母愛或無條件愛的人。比較揭示了一個“激情網路”——此處以不同角度顯示的紅色區域。該網路在大腦和血液中釋放神經遞質和其他化學物質,產生吸引力、興奮、快樂……和痴迷的感覺。

要了解更多關於該網路如何影響認知功能的細節,請參閱《大眾科學》2011年2月刊中的“圖解科學:戀愛中的大腦”一文。

圖表作者:James W. Lewis,西弗吉尼亞大學


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Mark Fischetti has been a senior editor at 大眾科學 for 17 years and has covered sustainability issues, including climate, weather, environment, energy, food, water, biodiversity, population, and more. He assigns and edits feature articles, commentaries and news by journalists and scientists and also writes in those formats. He edits History, the magazine's department looking at science advances throughout time. He was founding managing editor of two spinoff magazines: 大眾科學 Mind and 大眾科學 Earth 3.0. His 2001 freelance article for the magazine, "Drowning New Orleans," predicted the widespread disaster that a storm like Hurricane Katrina would impose on the city. His video What Happens to Your Body after You Die?, has more than 12 million views on YouTube. Fischetti has written freelance articles for the New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Smithsonian, Technology Review, Fast Company, and many others. He co-authored the book Weaving the Web with Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, which tells the real story of how the Web was created. He also co-authored The New Killer Diseases with microbiologist Elinor Levy. Fischetti is a former managing editor of IEEE Spectrum Magazine and of Family Business Magazine. He has a physics degree and has twice served as the Attaway Fellow in Civic Culture at Centenary College of Louisiana, which awarded him an honorary doctorate. In 2021 he received the American Geophysical Union's Robert C. Cowen Award for Sustained Achievement in Science Journalism, which celebrates a career of outstanding reporting on the Earth and space sciences. He has appeared on NBC's Meet the Press, CNN, the History Channel, NPR News and many news radio stations. Follow Fischetti on X (formerly Twitter) @markfischetti

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