4 minutes | Wednesday, 14 February 2018
In 2005 a team of American non-medical researchers claimed to have found the first direct evidence of love-related changes to the brain. Using functional MRI scanners, they reportedly identified a 'love map' after detecting increased activity in certain areas of the brain linked to reward and motivation in people who were in love.
Now though, Dr Fred Nour, a renowned US doctor, claims advances in medical technology means a test detecting the presence of potent 'love' chemicals in the brain using an MRI-type scanner on people could become a reality by 2028.
The chemicals, called nonapeptides, are only produced in significant quantities when a person is 'truly in love', researchers now believe. Dr Nour, a global authority on the physical brain science of love, claims that the next generation of brain scanners capable of scanning and measuring for love chemicals in people is only a decade or less away.