Intense love helps relieve pain

Strong emotions made by love prevent physical pain in the same manner as painkillers and drugs.

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Telegraph said, experts from Stanford University Medical Center in the US invited 15 students (both male and female) in love to participate in a test. The team asked volunteers to hold a device tightly in the palm of their hand and see their lover's photo. Experts say it is a device to measure body temperature, but it actually causes mild pain when volunteers hold hands. Each volunteer's brain is monitored by magnetic resonance imaging while they view the image.

Experts then repeated the experiment but asked volunteers to see a friend's photo with an attractive appearance, not a lover.

Brain scan results show that the activity of volunteers' brains when viewing photos of lovers is similar to brain activity when humans are injected with morphine and cocaine. Viewing photos you do not create the same effect.

'When people live in true and intense love, many big changes in mood occur that make them no longer feel pain like those who do not love, ' said Dr. Sean Mackey, lead researcher. .

The team also found that when volunteers focused their minds on something when pain - like a crossword puzzle - they didn't feel as painful as normal times. However, the pain relief of distraction is completely different from the feeling of love. This proves that the pain relief mechanism of love is not the same as the dispersion of thought.