have you ever wondered what it's like to
be in love not the kind of love
portrayed in rom-coms which usually
comes about after a series of meet cute
and dramatic breakups but the kind of
love that suddenly occurs to you when
looking at your significant other and
you realize that you want to stay by
their side as long as you can
what happens in between those two
moments how do you end up falling in
love
there are several theories and ideas
about how people fall in love most of
them are abstract but let's focus on the
theories that have some scientific
evidence
body
on a physiological level there are many
signs and symptoms you may experience
sweaty Palms racing hearts and
butterflies all of these symptoms are
simply a response to the thousands of
biochemical interactions happening
inside of you
you hold hands and oxytocin is activated
you go on a date and get home feeling
like you're in the clouds cortisol
levels have decreased the early stages
of falling in love are governed by a
series of complex reactions this is what
we sometimes think of as romance
this stage is filled with angst passion
and wanting to spend every second with
that other person
although it's common in the early stages
of a relationship it can happen multiple
times through a long lasting
relationship too
mind
but what happens neurologically why do
you fall in love in 2015 doctors Richard
Schwartz and Jacqueline old published
their findings based on studies on love
one of their findings supported the idea
that love or being in love is a
primitive need this concept was
supported by Helen Fisher's 2005 study
which presents fmri images of the brain
when it's in love regions of the brain
like the quotient nucleus and ventral
tegmental areas are active when
researchers showed participants images
of their romantic Partners the ventral
Tech mental is associated with pleasure
attention and motivation to pursue
Rewards
it's no wonder these regions light up in
these participants the brains of these
participants Associated their partners
with pleasure and detention
additionally these two regions are
involved in a primitive neural network
that enables us to go after things we
desire that is possibly why we
constantly seek for the person we love
another region involved in Falling in
Love is the nucleus accumbens the
nucleus accumbens is responsible for
activities connected to goals and
rewards be it food sex regulating stress
and self-behavior administration this
region together with the prefrontal
cortex and the amygdala is responsible
for helping us make assessments of
others but when in love this region
shuts down hence the famous saying love
is blind in a conversation with Harvard
medical journal Dr old asserted we know
that primitive areas of the brain are
involved in romantic love and that these
areas light up on brain scans when
talking about a loved one of course
there are other factors at Play not only
are these regions activated but also
dopamine oxytocin and vasopressins which
all play a role in the attachment
process dopamine gets released as a
result of the activation in the reward
center the oxytocin is released during
physical contact but oxytocin is not
just a feel-good neurotransmitter it
works together with vasopressin to
create attachment that suppressant is
what produces long-term relationships
if oxytocin is What deepens feelings
after two people have sex then
vasopressin produces long-term
attachment the settling of these two
chemicals is what helps calm the initial
early relationship Jitters once the
relationship has calmed down many people
believe that love has died out but
that's not the case Dr Schwartz and old
proved these regions are still active in
people who have been married for over a
decade
a state-of-the-art investigation of love
has confirmed for the very first time
that people are not lying when they say
that after 10 to 30 years of marriage
they're still madly in love with their
partners
love begins with romance which is
necessary to fall in love to feel your
hearts give a few beats and to have that
wonderful desire to see the person you
love this is how you slowly become
attached to them and eventually fall in
love have you learned something new from
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