Love is a disease
What love does to the brain.This article once again proved my worldview, that person is unfortunately in the hands of unconditioned reflexes :)
Normal people new love often seems to be mental illness, a blend of mania, dementia and obsession. She cuts off people from their friends and relatives and inspire an unusual pattern of behavior – compulsive phone calls, serenades, yelling on the roofs – all this can be mistaken for psychosis.
But now scientists neuroscientists for the first time received the scanned image of such a damaged brain, even before the novel will be included in their puppy love stage and on the horizon will be a joint vacation plans or long-term commitments.
Carried out by scientists from new York and new Jersey the imagery analysis, published today in the Journal of neurophysiology (Journal of Neurophysiology), proves that romantic love is a biological urge distinct from sexual desire.
It, scientists say, according to your neural appearance much closer to such feelings as hunger, thirst or the need for drugs, than to emotional States such as excitement or passion. With the deepening of relations, according to brain scans, neural activity associated with romantic love, is slowly changing.
This research helps explain why love is such a wide range of emotions – from euphoria to anger or anxiety – and why it becomes even more powerful when it is linked to deprivation.
In another, not yet finished the experiment, the researchers analyzed images of the brain of people rejected by their loved ones.
When you are at the mercy of romantic love, it becomes all-consuming. You can't control yourself. Every day you go to the gym at 6 am – and why? Because there – she – says Dr. Helen Fisher, an anthropologist at Rutgers University and one of the authors of the study. – And when a man is rejected, he may start to think about the persecution of her lover, the murder, of suicide. This need for romantic love can be stronger than we can imagine.
The technology of brain scanning does not allow you to read minds, warn scientists, and is multi-faceted and socially constructed phenomenon, like love, cannot be known with the help of simple techniques like computer graphics.
Nevertheless Dr. Hans Breiter, Director of Community for the study of motivational and emotional neuroscience from the hospital, Massachusetts said: I are suspicious of 95% of the literature based on magnetic resonance imaging, and I would put this study excellent. It really is a powerful breakthrough in terms of understanding the mechanisms of attraction love.
He adds: These discoveries are wonderfully fit into the large and growing body of literature describing the total system of reward and exclusion, functioning in the brain. They put the intellectual component of love on a par with homeostatic rewards such as food, warmth, the need for drugs.
In this study, Dr. Fisher, Dr. Lucy brown of the Medical College named after albert Einstein and Dr. Arthur Aron, a psychologist from new York state University headed the research team investigating about two and a half thousand images of the brain obtained during the examination of 17 students of the College who fell in love a few weeks or a few months ago. Students looked at pictures of their sweethearts, while the apparatus for magnetic resonance imaging took pictures of their brain. The researchers then compared these images with others taken when students looked at photos of acquaintances.
Functional imaging allows to determine the increase in blood flow to different parts of the brain that reflects changes in brain activity.
In this study designed using the computer the map is particularly active sites were visible hot spots in the depths of the brain beyond the level of conscious perception in the area, called caudate nucleus" and in's ventral tegmental area, which communicate with each other during the exchange.
These areas are densely filled with cells, producing or absorbing a chemical agent of the brain called dopamine, which is actively spreading, when people have some desire or expect a reward.
In studies of pathological gamblers, cocaine, and even people playing for money in a computer game, it has been shown that the development of dopamine are particularly active, when these people win, say neuroscientists
But love is an example of the most irrational behavior in humans: this is not a question of meeting a simple need or receive the award. In addition, the researchers found that one of the areas in the pictures – in the region of the caudate nucleus is particularly active in people who showed the highest results on the questionnaire measure the level of passionate love.
This passion is responsible for the area, as the researchers found, is associated with craving, desire and inexplicable attraction that people feel to one specific person out of many equally attractive partners. She has a place in the area of the brain of mammals that is responsible for most of the basic functions such as eating, drinking, movement of the eyeballs. It all happens on a subconscious level, and I think nobody expected this part of the brain such specialization," – says Dr. brown.
The thrill of new love eventually, of course, passes, and shots imaging of the brain record evidence of these changes.
Early studies love using tomography, the results of which were published in 2000, researchers from University College London studied the brain activity of young people who are in relationships for about two years. Brain scans taken when the subject looked at the picture of your beloved or lover, show increased activity in the same areas of the brain that and in a new study, but to a much lesser extent in areas associated with passionate love.
Last summer, researchers from Emory University in Atlanta reported that the introduction of the mouse, the vole is just one gene turns a lecherous males in monogamous-couch, activating the same brain area in which a new study found increased activity evolving over time.
One of the reasons why love keeps the heart-stopping, this inescapable fear that this feeling can be quite mutual that the dream could suddenly end.
In a subsequent series of experiments, Dr. Fisher, Dr. Aron and Dr. brown have studied the brains of 17 young men and women who were recently dumped by their lovers. As in the above-described experiment, the scientists compared two sets of images: one taken when the subject was looking at a photo of a friend and others when he looked at a picture of his former partner.
Although the researchers are still sorting pictures, but at this stage they noticed increased activity in the area of the brain responsible for passionate love. Obviously confirms what has long been described in the psychological literature and poetry, and the fact that people have long noticed: when you throw, the love increases. I call this phenomenon the deprivation-attraction," – says Dr. Fisher in an email.
One of the volunteers who participated in the study were Suzanne Katz, a 22-year-old student from new York, three years ago survived a breakup with a boyfriend. She explains that she has carried out many activities to distract from feelings after a breakup, but remember that there were moments when she felt almost a physical shortage of something, as if she was breaking drug.
It was not so much about him, but with the fact that I used to have something inside, hope, the realization that you have someone there that you can feel it, and suddenly everything is gone she said in an interview.
And no wonder. In a series of experiments, researchers found that, among other things, a new love psychological means assign a loved one, a partial assimilation of other people's views, passions and ways to Express it, nature, as well as the transfer of something of his.
"The expansion of the personality occurs very rapidly, it is one of the most memorable experiences of all that exists, and except for the fact that our survival is threatened, it is one of the most stimulating sensations, says Dr. Aron.
When in love a person loses all of it, parts of his brain responsible for emotion, cognition, and response to promotion, vigorously react to it. But sooner or later the increased activity in these areas is gradually waning. And gyrus of the brain associated with passionate love, remain intact and ready to be reborn to a new life and new love.
What is the meaning of love is too overrated and imposed by society, have long understood. Stop trying to reinvent the wheel such topics.
The_Black_Wolf wrote:
so it is clear that this is just a natural drug that elevated to something sublime.
Peter I Emperor of Russia wrote:
What is the meaning of love is too overrated and imposed by society, have long understood.
Mommy tags-the reductionist?
Hey, why so much ADO about nothing? If love is a disease, then the only thing we can do is to get to recover and based on my experience, depending on the progress of the disease to develop or not to develop immunity. As with any other infection.
But to criticize or to praise that part of his nature, over which man himself has no power, and which it cannot reliably monitor, it is a sign of narrow-minded person. Don't mean to offend, but not depends on the person whom he will love.
Well, I read that scientists have proved ravnonogie(for biochem. processes) love OCD. What to do? To fall in love, or not?
Garrus-1994
Don't know if you're aware, but Pleygraund against love, because it is a harmful chemical that clouds the mind (ironically, in almost the next topic is praise of beer, which also have chemicals that obscures the mind).
Wing42
Well, if it's through the eyes of a misanthrope to watch, Yes. And it and chemistry, and the mind is able to outshine. Take the example of beer. Also chemistry, drink a bit and you feel good. Will eat like a pig, and your mind is completely eclipsed by what some do not remember how I got to a certain place, where they have a black eye, and why they have the face drawn genitals.
Garrus-1994
Misanthropy became a household phenomenon, the hatred has become ordinary and familiar people form the perception of the world through the hostility and contempt for people: familiar and even more unfamiliar. Why? But if the reason lies in the difficulty of finding a place in society - people simply can not afford to find the application, he did not have the time, desire or skills. Then suddenly he was disappointed in the world and people from all hard to hate and parades and proud of it.
Many become misanthropes: those who are trying to seem such, and just consider themselves as such. Perhaps it's time to trim their countless number as you think?
Wing42
Misanthropy has become such a phenomenon because it became popular. There is nothing easier than to hate people. Imagine he asked you for help and you calmly refused, and therefore convince themselves, they say, well, I'm a misanthrope. I remember very clearly Huxley called the psychological justification. Well, imagine, I'm a sadist. I say begin to cause pain to anyone, I like it, and I say to myself, well, I'm a sadist, therefore I must fit the description of sadism in the book, say Fromm. And all and no problems. Himself convinced, and life is good. Only a man as was m*a duck, and has remained, even if he is a misanthrope and a sadist in one person.
But I agree, not only misanthropy has become such a phenomenon. Let's say the desire to stand out, now directed only on the desire to stand out. For example, earlier in the VC walked this quote that in order to stand out from the crowd enough not to drink/or smoke, and read books. And so people began to read books, not realizing that the reading is actually killer. It is sometimes hard to catch the fool, in this readers face. Well, at first, of course. So this is reading for reading, is a demonstrative behavior. Misanthropy is also the same behavior. Besides, after all, contribute to culture, in particular TV shows. For example Dr. house, Sheldon from the Big Bang Theory, Sherlock British with Cumberbatches. They are all misanthropes, and people looking at their coolness, in their fields, you begin to think, maybe it is true, to be successful, don't need a relationship, and generally not the right people? After all, these guys are all great. And the most that the interesting data emerging misanthropes don't see and don't want to see the growth of these characters. Because all of these three characters, throughout the series, away from the guise of a misanthrope.
As for the cuts, then let me at least think himself Emperor, and if they are not misanthropes, in their life there are situations when they will understand it, because you will not be able to behave as a misanthrope. Those who it really is in any situation it will remain, others of bullshit will scream.
Wing42
Wing42 wrote:
Don't know if you're aware, but Pleygraund against love, because it is a harmful chemical that clouds the mind
It is only the position of mommy tags, which are either still do not know what the reason, or do not know how to use it. However, given the fact that the average age of the visitor PG - about 14 years, no wonder.
Garrus-1994
Garrus-1994 wrote:
Misanthropy
Misanthropy - the same nonsense as philanthropy. The humanist does not like real people, he loves person. Abstract image, which is often taken with a loved one. In the case of misanthropy - this is a cheap attempt to distinguish themselves from the crowd. It comes not without the influence of very primitive cognitive distortions - a man goes into the crowd and looks around. Looking inward, he sees a person (any kind), and looking at other people...well, one's in a hurry, another slip with the case in hand, the third with an iPhone baldeet from music. Inside these people the future mommy misanthrope can just search not can and it begins to seem that they biorobots, always hurrying somewhere. He is a person, and they are not. For greater certainty, he himself ascribes to the crowd of stereotypical beliefs that he read on some garbage - the Whole crowd probably worships Life, watching TV and believe in spirits! But I sort of nitako! This gives birth to all sorts of crazy monasterii, like 95% (which itself misanthrop, of course, not included), based on nothing pride (of course, the consumer usually and slacker) and soprotivlenie system, which mommy mizantrop he himself had invented. Therefore, intelligent people will never become neither a humanist nor a misanthrope. Neither one nor the other have no clue about real people and saving the mental effort of trying to use some kind of universality. Conveniently, quickly, think do not need much...
However, I do not agree that the fashion for mass misanthropy introduced serialchik. It appeared much earlier under the influence of the philosophy of irrationalism XIX-th century (in my opinion, the most depressive period in the history of philosophical thought).
Garrus-1994 wrote:
Dr. house, Sheldon from the Big Bang Theory, Sherlock British with Cumberbatches
These characters (in my opinion highly improbable and overrated) brainwashed the current teenagers, causing them to think that sullen face and defiantly unemotional behavior will raise their intelligence level. But that's another Comedy...
Gauguin
Gauguin wrote:
However, I do not agree that the fashion for mass misanthropy introduced serialchik. It appeared much earlier under the influence of the philosophy of irrationalism XIX-th century (in my opinion, the most depressive period in the history of philosophical thought).
Maybe it is, but I think the emergence of misanthropes after ODA. period of philosophical thought, led to the emergence of the real misanthropes. Which really hated all people, which resulted later in the war. These people were real ready to act, and were not consumers and idlers.
And the series form of pseudoesotropia that through such detachment from the people through condemnation and stereotyping, praise themselves, although their real status does not coincide with an imaginary condition. And we was pseudo were talking.
Love is for the strong spirit.
Who is weak - he burns, dissolves in the object of love.
Lose yourself, your essence. Then comes breaking ;)
Which ends with a suicide, or hatred.
Wing42 wrote:
Holidays - flooded necroposting.
Because why create a new topic when there is old, which can be raised? The more small the activity here on the forum.
A. Soldier of Light
This, of course, is the logic... But the theme kind for Amateurs in this matter.
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