Lost love ... will be cured by scientists

Computer tests can 'train' the brains of those suffering from an unrequited love.

"This helps them avoid the actions they may regret later," said Barbara Sahakian, Professor of Clinical Neurology at Cambridge University.

Instead of making things worse with criticism and insults who reject your feelings, the best reaction to unrequited love is brain training . It will help curb the actions that make us embarrassed and regret later.

Professor Barbara Sahakian is examining computerized tests to enhance people's self-control. The operation of this test is very simple, the participant must respond to the blinking arrows and it only stops when the sound is generated.

Application to heal broken heart.(Photo: Atamy).

Her experiments have so far focused on reducing impulsive behaviors in people with mental health disorders. But in training a part of the brain called the prefrontal cortex to help it better control itself, the program can also help the unemployed.

Sahakian - author of the book Sex, Lies and Brain Scans said: "The frontal lobes have the ability to control in many different situations, whether in the brain training or in preventing people from thinking about It is like exercising for muscles and it can make a person who is heartbroken constantly texting his ex-lover. The brain will have tools to prevent it. "

Sahakian says, people tend to become compulsive to things that are their desire. It can be values ​​related to marriage and the desire to have children and once the relationship breaks down, our reaction will become what Sahakian calls "irrelevant".

If Sahakian's approach is effective, people can curb impulses in a way that physical strength is enhanced from regular exercise sessions in the gym. Even so, maybe we have to practice enough to hope this method is useful for everyone.

These brain training experiments will act as instructors and a person who has been "kicked" , can undergo an arrow test 8 hours a month to curb their impulses.

Until this test proves to be effective, the suffering people can turn to refer to other findings from psychological research.

In 2012, Naomi Eisenberger - a psychologist at the University of California in Los Angeles, found evidence that paracetamol can reduce the pain of people with a broken heart.

The drug seems to be effective because the feelings associated with heart failure are thought to have the same expression on the brain vessels that cause a feeling of pain in the body.

Drugs have a negative impact on people's emotions because their sense of happiness is also suppressed.

But other studies have questioned the value of taking paracetamol when falling in love . A study of drug effects in 2015 was conducted by researchers at Ohio State University, found that: Paracetamol not only relieves emotional pain but also affects all reactions. response of emotions.

In general, drugs have a negative impact on people's emotions because their sense of happiness is also suppressed.

Walter Mischel - American psychologist and author of the self-control book called The Marshmallow Test, advises people not to worry about breaking up. Instead take two aspirin tablets to relieve pain and then try to stay away from this event to change your mind. Thinking too much about a broken relationship often makes the pain worse, he said.

About this, Sahakian agrees."Being home alone and pondering about the happy memories they've experienced before, is the worst thing anyone can do after being emotionally hurt."