Love is one of our most powerful emotions, inspiring some of the greatest art, literature and
conquests of human history. Although aspects of love are surely unique to our species …

This review summarizes evidence of dysregulated reward circuitry function in a range of
neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders and genetic syndromes. First, the …

Individuals in the early stage of intense romantic love show many symptoms of substance
and non-substance or behavioral addictions, including euphoria, craving, tolerance …

Rationale Love has long been referred to as an addiction in literature and poetry. Scientists
have often made comparisons between social attachment processes and drug addiction …

We present a psychological model of extremism based on the concept of motivational
imbalance whereby a given need gains dominance and overrides other basic concerns. In …

Drug use typically occurs within a social context, and social factors play an important role in
the initiation, maintenance and recovery from addictions. There is now accumulating …

The present article advances a neurobiological model of the reciprocal associations
between social attachment and drug abuse, and social attachment and chronic stress, as …

Haploinsufficiency of SHANK3, encoding the synapse scaffolding protein SHANK3, leads to
a highly penetrant form of autism spectrum disorder. How SHANK3 insufficiency affects …

The mesolimbic dopamine (DA) circuitry determines which behaviors are positively
reinforcing and therefore should be encoded in the memory to become a part of the …

Recent research shows that the effects of oxytocin are more diverse than initially thought
and that in some cases oxytocin can directly influence the response to drugs and alcohol …