Abstract
Scholars from a variety of disciplines have investigated passionate love and sexual desire. Passion is considered to be a cultural universal, transcending culture and time. In the last decade, neuroscientists have contributed greatly to our understanding of the nature of passionate love and sexual desire. Overall, functional magnetic resonance imaging studies show that both passionate love and sexual desire spark increased activity in the subcortical brain areas that are associated with euphoria, reward, and motivation and the cortical brain areas that are involved in self‐representation and social cognition, although these two phenomena differ specifically at the subcortical level along a posterior‐to‐anterior insula pattern, from desire to love, suggesting that love is a more abstract representation of the pleasant sensorimotor experiences that characterize desire.
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