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| bisun | Posted
on 30-Apr-04 04:21 PM
"As to the proximate, immediate cause of love, scientists have found that the mother-offspring bond in humans and other animals is mediated by the hormones oxytocin and vasopressin." "What researchers at University College London have now found is that romantic and maternal love activate many of the same regions of the brain. The implication is that maternal love is the evolutionary basis, the foundation, for romantic love. " "The researchers, Andreas Bartels and Semir Zeki, of UCL's Laboratory for Neurobiology, also found that love leads to a suppression of neural activity associated with critical social assessment of other people and negative emotions: The brain is told to go easy on people. The findings suggest that once you fall in love, the need to critically assess the character and personality of that person is reduced. The work could provide a neurological explanation for why love makes us blind. " "The researchers found that the brain activity recorded in the two studies was remarkable similar. When young mothers gazed at their children, the same brain areas lit up as when young lovers stared at photos of their partners. Both types of love activate specific regions in the reward system, and both reduce activity in the systems necessary for making negative judgments." (source: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fe20040408rh.htm) Solution to those with broken hearts: reduce or deactivate the hormones oxytocin and vasopressin. Warning: You might not fall in love with others too who might actually return your love :) |