Wednesday, July 07, 2010

Addicted To Love

Turns out love is addictive, at least from the point of view of how the brain reacts.

My first impression is that this is too much along the lines of quantifying human emotion. Is it really that sterile. Applying rationality to emotion hasn't really worked that well in the past now has it. Try telling someone with a broken heart that they are mimicking the behavior of an addict. Now that's really going to help.

Live Science: 'Romantic Love Is an Addiction,' Researchers Say
The researchers found that, for heartbroken men and women, looking at photographs of former partners activated regions in the brain associated with rewards, addiction cravings, control of emotions, feelings of attachment and physical pain and distress.


Brain regions known as the nucleus accumbens and orbitofrontal/prefrontal cortex were also activated. These regions are known to be associated with intense cocaine addiction and cigarette addiction.


...time seems to heal...

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