Tag: Neurobiology

Opposite Or Same Sex, Male Or Female, Romantic Love Is All The Same To The Brain

Heterosexual or homosexual, male or female, it’s all the same as far as the brain systems that regulate romantic love are concerned, according to a new study from University College London (UCL), where researchers examined functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) brain scans of volunteers while they looked at the faces of their lovers. Drs Semir […]

Brain aging accelerated by 10 years with midlife overweight, obesity

Published in the journal Neurobiology of Aging, the study revealed that middle-aged adults who were overweight had reduced white matter volume in the brain, compared with their lean counterparts. The research team – including senior author Prof. Paul Fletcher of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge – says this reduction in white […]