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The Chemistry of Falling in Love


Love, Actually: The science behind lust, attraction, and companionship

High levels of dopamine and a related hormone, norepinephrine, are released during attraction. These chemicals make us giddy, energetic, and ...

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

The emotion of euphoria, and the release of a jumble of chemicals in the brain, including dopamine (pleasure), adrenaline (fight or flight) and ...

Love and the Brain | Harvard Medical School

Other chemicals at work during romantic love are oxytocin and vasopressin, hormones that have roles in pregnancy, nursing, and mother-infant attachment.

The chemistry of love | Feature

The emotions we feel when we fall in love, develop attachments, build relationships and even break up are all linked to brain chemistry. Several ...

What Happens in Your Brain When You Fall in Love? - Verywell Mind

Dopamine, Norepinephrine, and Serotonin Reward Love ... Attraction is connected to the brain's reward system, which involves the brain chemicals ...

The Chemistry of Falling in Love - Erin Schaden - Medium

First, the lust hormones of estrogen and testosterone flood, and all the organs associated with those hormones are similarly lit up like a ...

Your Brain and Five Senses: The Science Behind Falling in Love

As people fall deeper into love, the brain floods again — this time with oxytocin, released when people are physically affectionate, and ...

The Science Of Love: What's Happening in Your Body

Love happens less in the heart and more in the brain, where hormonal releases and brain chemicals are triggered. Dopamine, serotonin and oxytocin are some of ...

Brain Chemistry Influences Love and Attraction | Right as Rain

Brain chemistry triggers attraction and the feeling of falling in love ... Call it a chemical meet cute. When you first meet someone, your brain ...

Are you in love or just high on chemicals in your brain? Answer - CNN

The brain seals the deal by releasing oxytocin, often called “the love hormone.” It's a neuropeptide produced in the hypothalamus and secreted ...

The science of love & the hormones that help you fall in love - Calm

What is oxytocin (the love hormone)?; How testosterone and estrogen impact feeling in love; How dopamine, serotonin, and norepinephrine work to ...

What happens to our brain chemistry when we fall deeply in love ...

Falling in love causes our body to release a flood of feel-good chemicals that trigger specific physical reactions. The major chemicals include ...

Is 'Love' just a set of chemical reactions in the brain? - Reddit

The most TLDR explanation is that falling in love/lust/crush with someone floods you with dopamine and some serotonin. Over time this is ...

The science of love at first sight | Royal Institution

Chemistry in the couple ... When you're falling in love, physical and chemical changes happen in your body. You experience releases of large ...

What happens in your brain when you're in love?

Her team found 12 areas of the brain work together to release chemicals such as the “feel-good” hormone dopamine, the “cuddle hormone” oxytocin, ...

The Chemistry of Love - YouTube

This week Reactions is looking at the chemistry of love. What is the science going on when we fall in love? Love has inspired timeless songs ...

The neuroendocrinology of love - PMC - PubMed Central

Love may be defined as an emergent property of an ancient cocktail of neuropeptides and neurotransmitters. It appears that lust, attachment and attraction ...

The Chemistry of Love: How Falling in Love Scrambles Your Brain

Sexual encounters may initially spark dopamine-driven passion, but with repeated intimate connections, the brain starts secreting oxytocin and ...

Here's what happens in your brain when you fall in love

In the early stages of a romance, critical hormones like oxytocin and vasopressin interact with the brain's reward system, especially dopamine, ...

Science confirms: love is a matter of chemistry - UniCamillus

Oxytocin: the love hormone. We spoke to Professor Stefania Chiappini, lecturer in Psychiatry at UniCamillus. “Oxytocin, commonly known as the “ ...