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Your brain in love


What happens in our brain and body when we're in love?

Dopamine stimulates the reward pathways and increases motivation and obsessive thoughts and behaviours to pursue the love interest.

The Brain in Love - BrainFacts

Prairie voles with pups. Cartoon of girl thinking of love. This image shows the brains of monogamous prairie voles, with oxytocin receptors ...

Rewire Your Brain For Love | The Book - Marsha Lucas PhD

Rewire Your Brain for Love explores how we developed our current relationship wiring, and how to modify it through mindfulness meditation. Lucas shows how a ...

Does Being in Love Come from the Brain or Heart?

Being in love is more about the brain than the heart! Obviously, we all know the physical heart pumps blood and carries oxygen and nutrients ...

This is your brain on love - Los Angeles Times

Key to this state of seeing a person as a soul mate instead of a one-night stand is the limbic system, nestled deep within the brain between the ...

Your Brain on Love - Album by Stan Tatkin - Spotify

Listen to Your Brain on Love on Spotify · Album · Stan Tatkin · 2013 · 58 songs.

Science of love: It's all in the brain, not the heart | OHSU News

OHSU neuroscientist Larry Sherman, Ph.D. says they're all wrong. “It's not your heart,” he said, “it's all in your brain.”

Your Brain on Love - Top Videos and News Stories for the 50+ | AARP

Whether it's your soulmate or your first child, the love you feel for others starts in the brain. Watch the video to learn more — through personal stories ...

Love on Your Brain? Here's What's Actually Happening in Your Head

Essentially, your brain decides it needs love. The limbic system continually releases dopamine, effectively maintaining your craving for the ...

Love on the Brain - WebMD

Scientists peeking inside our brains and psyches have more clues than ever about the biology of love -- why we're attracted, why we fall so hard, and what ...

Our Brains in Love | NeuroGrow Brain Fitness Center

More specifically, Phenylethylamine, Norepinephrine, Oxytocin, Vasopressin, and Dopamine fuel the processes involved in attraction, love, and ...

The Science Behind Why We Fall in Love - Mount Elizabeth Hospitals

... of feeling often fades into a comfortable closeness. The initial happy feelings of being in love is stimulated by 3 chemicals in the brain ...

The stages of love - From lust to attraction and attachment

Lust – Testosterone and oestrogen; Attraction – Dopamine, norepinephrine and serotonin; Attachment – Oxytocin and vasopressin. So, let's dive into the chemicals ...

Your Brain in Love and Lust | Scientific American

This Valentine's Day, Scientific American traces the flow of chemicals in the brain during different phases of romance and describes ...

Scientists Identify 6 Different Types of Love in Brain Study - Prevention

A new study shows that there are actually six different types of love, and each activates a different part of the brain.

Breakups: Your Brain In Love - Mend

The brain scans of those currently in love revealed dominance of the anterior cingulate cortex, the region of the brain associated with reward, motivation, and ...

Your Brain on Love | HuffPost Life

Biologically speaking, love is the backbone of the social bonds that are critical for our survival and adaptation. These intimate bonds alter ...

Is love just a fleeting chemical high in the brain? - BBC

Love is nothing but a cocktail of pheromones, dopamine and oxytocin, and that these wear off after a couple of years.

Your Brain on Love: What Science Reveals - Roam

Kayt Sukel, renowned author and journalist, looks at what happens to your brain when you fall in love and how we can explain it. BY THE ROAM TEAM 5 MIN READ.

The Neuroscience of Love: How Love Improves Your Brain Health

Love is a powerful and complex emotion that can have a significant impact on your overall brain health.