It’s All Just Chemicals
Posted on 07.17.10 to Personal by JoanAddicted to Love
Overcoming heartbreak may be similar to kicking an addiction, say researchers studying brain images of the lovelorn. Scientists asked 15 college students who had recently been rejected by their romantic partners to look at pictures of their exes — with whom they were still deeply in love — and found that the most active areas of the students’ brains were those involved in motivation, craving, addiction and pain. The findings may help explain why feelings of romantic love and rejection are so hard to control. But the study also confirmed that time does heal a broken heart: the students who had been separated the longest had the weakest reaction to the pictures.
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