love

Question 1

Fisher et al (2005)

Answer 1

• LA linked to SA = dopamine & brain-reward
• 17 fMRis
• tolerance, obsession
  ✅ 1st fmri on LA
  ❌ not longitudinal

Question 2

Shaffer et al (2004)

Answer 2

• LA involves salience and compulsions
  ❌ conceptual, over-pathologize

Question 3

Reynaud et al (2010)

Answer 3

• LA = DSM-4 and ACM
• intense romans obsessive/uncontrollable = pathological
  ❌ not empirical

Question 4

Reynaud (2010)

Answer 4

• love and addiction similar
• pathological love = obsessive, dependent, negative
• agrees with fisher
  ✅ clinical data

Question 5

Sussman et al (2010)

Answer 5

• 40 LA papers
• love becomes maladaptive & linked to child adversity, attachment issues
• emotional dependence
  ❌ theoretical

Question 6

Cavelli et al (2025)

Answer 6

• meta-analysis
• anxious attachment styles linked LA = emotional vulnerability
  ✅parallels to CBT, neurobiological and behavioural addiction models
  ❌ measurements not operationalised =.low internal v

Question 7

Borrello et al (2023)

Answer 7

• LA and Sex Addiction similar
• both compulsive, impulsive, emotion vulnerable
• emotional over dependence uses love a cope
  ❌ self-report
  ✅ empirical, confirms comorbidities

Question 8

Burkett et al (2012)

Answer 8

• bio explanation to love can be AB
• insecure = excessive need of validation and closeness
• LA and substance
  ✅ bio bias
  ❌ animal studies