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Mike
Carruthers:
The romantic love you're supposed to feel this time of year
where in your brain does it live?
Lauren Slater:
If you were to try to find love's address in the brain you would
find that it lives very close to areas in the brain that are linked
to rewards.
Lauren Slater
is author of the cover story in the February issue of National
Geographic Magazine called Love, The Chemical Reaction…
You stick people
in an MRI machine and have them while they're in there experience
some kind of reward like winning blackjack or whatever. You'd
find a certain area of the brain light up with glee. If you
stick people in an MRI machine and you show them pictures of
their beloved that same general area lights up. So, love as
an emotion is closely linked to the pleasures that we feel when
we are rewarded with money or praise or whatever else.
In her research
Lauren also discovered that when couples do nerve-wracking activities
on a date, say ride a roller coaster, it stimulates feelings
of attraction in the brain. So…
If you want your
date to be successful and you want the person to fall in love
with you then you're going to have more luck if you do something
that raises the hackles. And that's the same that goes for people
that are in long term relationships. That one of the ways that
researchers have found that you keep a long term relationship
alive is by doing novel things together. Something that rakes
the regular routine is good for stimulating the neurotransmitters
associated with love.
Tomorrow, why
passion must die in a relationship- I'm Mike Carruthers and
that's Something You Should Know.
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