SOME say love is blind. Others say it defies explanation. But two cognitive neurologists in Britain say that love is just a specific type of brain activity.
Andreas Bartels and Semir Zeki at University College London used a functional magnetic resonance imager to scan the brains of 17 volunteers who described themselves as “truly and madly” in love. During the scans, each was shown pictures of their loved one, or a friend of the same sex as their partner.
Seeing a lover prompted activity in four brain regions that were not active when looking at pictures of a friend, and…
