• 106-135 points = Wildly, even recklessly, in love.
  So what brain areas are active in you? Your deep brainstem reward system, the ventral tegmental area and caudate nucleus are probably very active when you look at your beloved. See this link to find out why we can say that: Ventral Tegmental Area or watch this video: Lucy's Brain Map
• 86-105 points = Passionate, but less intense.
  Maybe you’ve been happily in love for over a year. The brain pattern of activation you probably show when you think about your beloved is in frontal and “new” parts of the brain, and in area called the nucleus accumbens. See this link: Attachment is Different From Romance or watch this video: Pair Bonding Hypothesis
• 66-85 points = Occasional bursts of passion.
  You may show some activation in your reward system, occasionally. There are pictures of different individuals’ brains who showed a passionate response at this link: The Brain's Reward System
• 45-65 points = Tepid, infrequent passion.
  We just don’t know what your brain’s response is! Maybe the reaction is like you would have to friend or a neutral acquaintance. You can read about how neutral familiar faces were controls for our brain studies of romantic love. Positive Stimulus
• 15-44 points = The thrill is gone.
  Parts of your brain that react to a familiar face are probably active when you look at your partner, but the activity may be no different from a friend—not necessarily a bad thing. You can read about how we used friends as controls in our experiments: Positive Stimulus

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