Brain activity in the ventral tegmental area would support the idea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Keeping Love Alive] Reference

You didn't think about the caudate and the ventral tegmental areas, did you?.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Loving with all your ... brain] Reference

You didn\'t think about the caudate and the ventral tegmental areas, did you?.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Loving with all your ... brain] Reference

And you can see them there, the nucleus accumbens, the amygdala and the ventral tegmental area.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 2, 2006] Reference

Mrs. Tucker's brain reacted to her husband's photo with a frenzy of activity in the ventral tegmental area.    From Wordnik.com.  [Keeping Love Alive] Reference

These include the nucleus accumbens and the ventral tegmental area, both part of the mesolimbic pathway, which is associated with things like addiction.    From Wordnik.com.  [By Request: Cognitive Science of Humor] Reference

They found robust activity in a brain region called the ventral tegmental area, which is rich in dopamine, a brain chemical connected to feelings of pleasure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Keeping Love Alive] Reference

They saw the two areas of the brain, the caudate, you can see that there, and also the ventral tegmental (ph) area started to light up like a Christmas tree, if you would.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 14, 2007] Reference

In the obese women, the images triggered a strong response in the ventral tegmental area (VTA), a tiny spot in the midbrain where dopamine, the "desire chemical," is released.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eating to Live or Living to Eat?] Reference

Halliday G (1987) Ventral tegmental (A10) system: neurobiology.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

CTT-central tegmental tract, dmpNr-dorsomedial part of parvicellular red nucleus.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

The mammillo-tegmental bundle has already been considered under the olfactory reflex paths.    From Wordnik.com.  [IX. Neurology. 4e. Composition and Central Connections of the Spinal Nerves] Reference

It is also connected to the dopamine pathways as the ventral tegmental system and is involved in pleasure and addiction.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Brain scans showed the ventral tegmental area and dorsal striatum lit up when participants looked at their spouse's photo.    From Wordnik.com.  [BusinessWeek.com -- Top News] Reference

SN, excluding ventral tegmental area (VTA), was delineated in low magnification (5X objective) and a point grid was overlaid onto each section.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

The Nicotine molecules go through the lungs and into the bloodstream, before flooding nicotinic acetylcholine receptors near the ventral tegmental area.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Tobacco company's new, dissolvable nicotine products could lead to accidental poisoning] Reference

CTT-central tegmental tract, dmpNr-dorsomedial part of parvicellular red nucleus, lb-lateral bend, MAO-medial accessory olive, MTT-medial tegmental tract.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

The dorsal or tegmental part of the pons is chiefly composed of an upward continuation of the reticular formation and gray substance of the medulla oblongata.    From Wordnik.com.  [IX. Neurology. 4a. The Hind-brain or Rhombencephalon] Reference

Researchers found that when shown pictures of a former loved one, the brain reacted in the the ventral tegmental area, associated with "motivation and reward.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Economic Times] Reference

Swanson L (1982) The projections of the ventral tegmental area and adjacent regions: a combined fluorescent retrograde tracer and immunofluorescence study in the rat.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

When participants viewed images of their partners, their brains 'ventral tegmental area, which houses the reward and motivation systems, was flooded with the chemical dopamine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Situationist] Reference

We recently showed in the rat that neurons generating PS are specifically active during PS (PS-on or REM-on neurons) and localized in the sublaterodorsal tegmental nucleus (SLD).    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

When they compared the results with scans of 17 people who had fallen in love in the previous year, they found that the same area of the brain, the ventral tegmental area, lit up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clipmarks | Live Clips] Reference

DA is thought to increase signal gain in active networks according to an inverted U dose-response curve, and these effects may depend on both tonic and phasic release of DA from midbrain ventral tegmental area.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elites TV] Reference

In these lovebirds, one dopamine-rich region in particular -- the ventral tegmental area -- consistently lighted up upon viewing the loved one, but not the neutral person, according to the research, published in 2005.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Myelin - and Nissl-stained sections show that a well-developed dorsomedial part of the human Nr consists of densely packed cells, deriving small myelinated fibers that continue into the medial central tegmental tract.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

The researchers then looked at two of the brain’s reward centers — the ventral tegmental area and the nucleus accumbens — to see if there were differences there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cool Under Fire? It’s All in Your Head | Impact Lab] Reference

+ (82\%) was observed in the pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus (PPTg.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

+ cells, with 80\% of them being GAD+ were also located in the ventral tegmental area (VTA.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

CTT-central tegmental tract, dmpNr-dorsomedial part of parvicellular red nucleus, EW-Edinger-Westphal nucleus, FR-fasciculus retroflexus.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference