Can't we all relate to this?
Love makes fools of us all but scientists believe that it could be mistaken for psychosis.
Scientists have for the first time produced brain scans of people in the first stages of love and those who have been rejected. From these images they concluded that romance is a biological urge distinct from sexual arousal.
Writing in The Journal of Neurophysiology, the scientists from New York and New Jersey said romance was closer in its neural profile to drives such as hunger, thirst or drug craving than to excitement or affection.
However, as a relationship deepens, the neural activity alters slightly, and in some cases primes those areas involved in long-term attachment.
The research helps explain why love can make someone feel euphoria one minute then anger and anxiety the next, or prompt out-of-character behaviour, such as compulsive phone calling, serenades and yelling from the roof.
full article ... author BENEDICT CAREY
3 comments:
Finally, those brain scans they took off me back in college are being put to use. The rejection ones, anyways.
Interesting topic, Carly!
I dont believe it. I mean, how can you do a scientific study on love?
Love is supposed to be this unexplainable, magical feeling, that starts from the pit of your stomach, to the middle of your heart.
All things are perfect, all things soft and overstuffed; life is like a great big bed that you can get in and snuggle about and love just smiles and kisses you through the starlet, sensual nights for all and forever.
Interesting. I consider myself a man of science. Thus I have derrived:
[(Love+Lust)/(Kids*pets)] + WHF = Happiness
*WHF=Wife's Hotness Factor, self derrived but scientifically proven to whiten teeth, prevent arthritis and make you oogle her all over when she drops the towel, even for a moment;
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