Functional neuroimaging studies have shown that romantic love and maternal love are
mediated by regions specific to each, as well as overlapping regions in the brain's reward
system. Nothing is known yet regarding the neural underpinnings of unconditional love. The
main goal of this functional magnetic resonance imaging study was to identify the brain
regions supporting this form of love. Participants were scanned during a control condition
and an experimental condition. In the control condition, participants were instructed to simply …