Ahead of Valentine's Day, a new study has revealed that intense romantic feelings actually comes from brain and not from the heart.
Researchers at the State University of New York found that it is the brain and not the heart which plays a vital role in falling in love. In a small study, the researchers looked at magnetic quality images of the brains of 10 women and 7 men who claimed to be deeply in love.
The length of their relationships ranged from one month to less than two years. Participants were shown photographs of their beloved, and photos of similar looking person.
The brains of obsessed participants reacted to photos of their sweethearts, producing emotional responses in the same parts of their brain normally involved with motivation and reward.
Arthur Aron, a psychologist at the State University, was quoted as saying by LiveScience that intense passionate love uses the same system in the brain that gets activated when a person gets activated to drugs.
The researchers said that, in other words, we start to desire for the person we are in love with like a drug.
Experts said that romantic love is one of the most powerful emotions a person can have. Human brains agitated to chose a mate, and we humans become motivated to win over that mate, sometimes going to extremes to get their attention and care.
Lucy Brown, a neuroscientist at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York said that you can feel happy when you're in love, but you can also feel anxious. The other person becomes a goal in life, essentially a prize.
Brown said that the reward part of the brain, also dubbed the pleasure center, is an essential part of the brain needed to survive. She added that, it helps us recognise when something feels good.
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