Neuroimaging Love - Romance Is More Scientific Than You Think
Sunday, October 24, 2010 - 13:10
in Psychology & Sociology
Do you fall in love using your heart or your brain? It depends. For your brain, says a new meta-analysis with a discovery that won't discourage drug use by Syracuse University Professor Stephanie Ortigue, that falling in love elicits the same euphoric feeling as using cocaine, but it also affects intellectual areas of the brain. That's a pretty big endorsement of the brain being number one in romance. So if love is in the brain and not the heart, is there 'love at first sight' after all? The science says yes, according to the researchers, who found falling in love only takes about a fifth of a second. read more