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Yessi Pratiwi — June 15, 2007 / 12:18 pm
A friend of mine often bothered by her Ex-boyfriend, who’s continously send her some terror message everyday. What’s going on? They were loving each other but now it has turn into anger and hate.
Scientists are beginning to get early insights into the nature and origin of love. Then, the research inside human brain who’s falling in love shows that there are some patterns of activity and biochemical changes that take place during love. It show that when they first fall in love, serotonin levels plummet and the brain’s reward centres are flooded with dopamine. This gives a high similar to an addictive drug, creating powerful links in our minds between pleasure and the object of our affection, and meaning we crave the hit of our beloved again and again. While the dopamine reward areas are excited in love, regions linked with negative emotions and critical social judgement switch off. See? This is the reason why the old adage “love is blind” really is true.
What about heart-breaking? When we get dumped, the brain networks and chemicals associated with love increase. Then love can turn to anger and hate, as the regions associated with reward are closely linked to rage in the brain. These negative emotions can spawn anything from obsession and domestic violence to stalking and even murder of supposed loved ones. Ridiculous, but.. That’s the fact. So, are you ready to love? B-)
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