Love is usually associated with the heart: Valentine's Day chocolates, for example, often come in a (stylized) heart-shaped box. But recent studies by neuroscientists show that love is actually very much in our heads.

Dr. Lucy Brown, a neuroscientist at the Albert Einstein School of Medicine, has studied the brain during various stages of romantic love using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). She describes these studies in the most recent episode of the APS podcast, Life Lines (http://www.lifelines.tv).

The episode is entitled Where Love Begins: In the Brain and can be found by clicking on Episode 18 at http://www.lifelines.tv.

This audio podcast recounts the portions of the brain that are active for people who are: newly in love

recently been rejected by a lover (unhappily in love)

in a longterm romantic relationship Among Dr…