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 Zeki and John Romaya from the Wellcome Laboratory of Neurobiology at UK's UCL published their findings, which followed from earlier work on differences between romantic and maternal love, in the 31 December 2010 issue of PLoS ONE.

In their introduction they explain that this study is a continuation of previous work on brain systems that appear to be critical for romantic love. Their inspiration came from reading world literature on love, both Western and Oriental, where characters in love appear to have the same sentiments, whether male or female, and regardless of sexual orientation.

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