This Is Your Brain on Sex (41 page)

Chapter 1: The Neuroscience of Love:
A History (Theirs and Mine)

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Chapter 2: The Ever-Loving Brain

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. Aron A, Fisher H, Mashek DJ, Strong G, Li H, and Brown LL. Reward, motivation and emotion systems associated with early-stage intense romantic love. Journal of Neurophysiology. 2005, 94(1): 327–37.

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. Ortigue S, Bianchi-Demicheli F, Hamilton AF, and Grafton ST. The neural basis of love as a subliminal prime: An event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 2007, 19(7): 1218–30.

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Chapter 3: The Chemicals between Us

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. Aragona BJ, Liu Y, Curtis JT, Stephan FK, and Wang Z. A critical role for nucleus accumbens dopamine in partner-preference formation in male prairie voles. Journal of Neuroscience. 2003, 23(8): 3483–90.

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. Curtis JT, Liu Y, Aragona BJ, and Wang Z. Dopamine and monogamy. Brain Research. 2006, 1126(1): 76–90.

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. Ferguson JN, Aldag JM, Insel TR, and Young LJ. Oxytocin in the medial amygdala is essential for social recognition in the mouse. Journal of Neuroscience. 2001, 21(20): 8278–85.

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. Uvnäs-Moberg K, Arn I, and Magnusson D. The psychobiology of emotion: The role of the oxytocinergic system. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine. 2005, 12(2): 59–65.

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. Carter CS. Neuroendocrine perspectives on social attachment and love. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 1998, 23(8): 779–818.

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. Esch T and Stefano GB. The neurobiology of love. Neuroendocrinology Letters. 2005, 26(3): 175–92.

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. Marazziti D, Akiskal HS, Rossi A, and Cassano GB. Alteration of the platelet serotonin transporter in romantic love. Psychological Medicine. 1999, 29:741–45.

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. Marazziti D and Canale D. Hormonal changes when falling in love. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2004, 29(7): 931–36.

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. Emanuele E, Politi P, Bianchi M, Minoretti P, Bertona M, and Geroldi D. Raised plasma nerve growth factor levels associated with early-stage romantic love. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2006, 31(3): 288–94.

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. Marazziti D, Del Debbio A, Roncaglia I, Bianchi C, Piccinni A, and Dell’Osso L. Neurotrophins and attachment. Clinical Neuropsychiatry. 2008, 5(2): 100–106.

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Chapter 4: epigenetics (or It Is All My Mother’s Fault)

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. Gregg C, Zhang J, Butler JE, Haig D, and Dulac C. Sex-specific parent-of-origin allelic expression in the mouse brain. Science. 6 August 2010, 329(5992): 682–85.

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. Gregg C, Zhang J, Weissbourd B, Luo S, Schroth GP, Haig D, and Dulac C. High-resolution analysis of parent-of-origin allelic expression in the mouse brain. Science. 6 August 2010, 329(5992): 643–48.

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. Waterland RA and Jirtle RL. Transposable elements: Targets for early nutritional effects on Maternal epigenetic regulation. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 2003, 23(15): 5293–300.

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. Zhang T-Y and Meaney MJ. epigenetics and the environmental regulation of the genome and its function. Annual Review of Psychology. 2010, 61:439–66.

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. Harlow NF. The nature
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. Szyf M, Weaver IC, Champagne FA, Diorio J, and Meaney MJ. Maternal programming of steroid receptor expression and phenotype through DNA methylation in the rat. Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology. 2005, 26(3–4): 139–62.

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. Cameron NM, Shahrokh D, Del Corpo A, Dhir SK, Szyf M, Champagne FA, and Meaney MJ. Maternal programming of phenotypic variations in reproductive strategies in the rat through maternal care. Journal of Neuroendocrinology. 2008, 20(6): 795–801.

Chapter 5: Our Primates, Ourselves (or Why We Are Not Slaves to Our Hormones)

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. Marazziti D and Canale D. Hormonal changes when falling in love. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2004, 29(7): 931–36.

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. Guégunumberlist N. Menstrual cycle phases and female receptivity to a courtship solicitation: An evaluation in a nightclub. Evolution and Human Behavior. 2009, 30(5): 351–55.

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. Miller G, Tyber JM, and Jordan BD. Ovulatory cycle effects on top earnings by lap dancers: Economic evidence for human estrus? Evolution and Human Behavior. 2007, 28:375–81.

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. Micevych P and Dominguez R. Membrane estradiol signaling in the brain. Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology. 2009, 30(3): 315–27.

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. Garcia-Segura LM. Aromatase in the brain: Not just for reproduction anymore. Journal of Neuroendocrinology. 2008, 20(6): 705–12.

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. Kuo J, Hariri OR, and Micevych P. An interaction of oxytocin receptors with metabotropic glutamate receptors in hypothalamic astrocytes. Journal of Neuroendocrinology. 2009, 21(12): 1001–6.

Chapter 6: His and Her Brains

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. Fine C. Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference. 2010. Norton, New York.

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. Cahill L. His brain, her brain. Scientific American. May 2005, 40-47.

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. Cahill L. Why sex matters for Neuroscience. Nature Review Neuroscience. 2006, 7: 477–84.

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. Goldstein JM, Jerram M, Abbs B, Whitfield-Gabrieli S, and Makris N. Sex Differences in stress response circuitry activation dependent on female hormonal cycle. Journal of Neuroscience. 2010, 30(2): 431–38.

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. Hamann S, Herman RA, Nolan CL, and Wallen K. Men and women differ in amygdala response to visual sexual stimuli. Nature Neuroscience. 2004, 7(4): 411–16.

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. Rupp HA and Wallen K. Sex Differences in response to visual sexual stimuli: A review. Archives of Sexual Behavior. 2008, 37(2): 206–18.

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. Rupp HA and Wallen K. Sex-specific content preferences for visual sexual stimuli. Archives of Sexual Behavior. 2009, 38(3): 417–26.

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. McCall KM, Rellini AH, Seal BN, and Meston CM. Sex Differences in memory for sexually-relevant information. Archives of Sexual Behavior. 2007, 36(4): 508–17.

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. Zeki S and Romaya JP. The brain reaction to viewing faces of opposite- and same-sex romantic partners. PLoS ONE. 2010, 5(12): e15802.

Chapter 7: The Neurobiology of Attraction

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. Wyatt TD. Fifty years of pheromones. Nature. 2009, 457:262–63.

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. Grammer K, Fink B, and Neave N. Human pheromones and sexual attraction. European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Biology. 2005, 118(2): 135–42.

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. Wysocki CJ and Preti G. Human pheromones: What’s purported, what’s supported. White paper prepared exclusively for the sense of Smell Institute. July 2009.

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. Jacob S, McClintock MK, Zelano B, and Ober C. Paternally inherited HLA alleles are associated with women’s choice of male odor. Nature Genetics. 2002, 30:175–79.

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. Keller A, Zhuang H, Chi Q, Vosshall LB, and Matsunami H. Genetic variation in a human odorant receptor alters odour perception. Nature. 2007, 449:468–72.

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. Savic I, Berglund H, Gulyas B, and Roland P. Smelling of odorous sex hormone-like compounds causes sex-differentiated hypothalamic activations in humans. Neuron. 2001, 31(4): 661–68.

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. Savic I, Hedén-Blomqvist E, and Berglund H. Pheromone signal transduction in humans: What can be learned from olfactory loss. Human Brain Mapping. 2009, 30(9): 3057–65.

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. Eastwick PW and Finkel EJ. Sex Differences in mate preferences revisited: Do people know what they initially desire in a romantic partner? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 2008, 94(2): 245–64.

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. springen K. The real laws of attraction. Newsweek, 14 February 2008.

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. Ireland ME, Slatcher RB, Eastwick PW, Scissors LE, Finkel EJ, and Pennebaker JW. Language style matching predicts relationship initiation and stability. Psychological Science. 2011, 22(1): 39–44.

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. Cooper JC, Dunne S, Furey M, and O’Doherty JP. Neural representations of reward in interpersonal attraction. Program No. 129.13.2010 Neuroscience Meeting Planner. San Diego, Calif.: Society for Neuroscience, 2010. Online.

Chapter 8: Making Love Last

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. Young LJ and Wang Z. The neurobiology of pair-bonding. Nature Neuroscience. 2004, 7:1048–54.

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. Aragona BJ, Liu Y, Yu YJ,
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. Hinde K, Maninger N, Mendoza SP, Mason WA, Rowland DJ, Wang GB, Kukis D, Cherry SR, and Bales KL. D1 dopamine receptor binding potential as a function of a pair-bond status in monogamous titi monkeys (Callicebus cupreus). Program No. 903. 7/JJJ22. 2010 Neuroscience Meeting Planner. San Diego, Calif.: Society for Neuroscience, 2010. Online.

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. Curtis JT, Liu Y, Aragona BJ, and Wang Z. Dopamine and monogamy. Brain Research. 2006, 1126(1): 76–90.

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. Snowdon CT, Pieper BA, Boe CY, Cronin KA, Kurian AV, and Ziegler TE. Variation in oxytocin is related to variation in affiliative behavior in monogamous, pairbonded tamarins. Hormones and Behavior. 2010, 58(4): 614–18.

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. Marazziti D and Canale D. Hormonal changes when falling in love. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2004, 29(7): 931–36.

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. Emanuele E, Politi P, Bianchi M, Minoretti P, Bertona M, and Geroldi D. Raised plasma nerve growth factor levels associated with early-stage romantic love. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2006, 31(3): 288–94.

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