'What is love?' through a scientific perspective

True love will flood the brain and control people's minds, according to scientists' new findings.

The truth about love from a scientific perspective

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What is love? It is a question that haunts every generation of people and now, some people claim to be able to decipher the mysteries of the source of human emotions, or rather find out the mechanism behind the evolution. of emotions affect the brain.

By sweeping the brains of men and women who are crazy about love, then comparing the results to those who are falling in love or who never know what love is, researchers think they can match sequence and draw the first map of the changes taking place in the loving brain.

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Functional magnetic resonance brain scanning (fMRI) , which measures brain activity by detecting changes in blood flow, shows the love that activates the activity of more than a dozen areas of the brain, with one set fate is the nucleus of the tail dealing with things related to ending a love affair.

Specifically, the brain scan results of 100 men and women show that love affects almost all important areas of the brain related to reward, motivation, emotion and social function . Specially active brain areas in people in love include the cortical cerebral cortex, the small frontal lobe, the caudal nucleus, the almond cortex and the adjacent cerebral cortex, as well as the parietal and lobular junction area. temples, posterior cerebral cortex, posterior posterior cerebellar cortex, quadrilateral lobes and temporal lobe. They also found a chemical mixture that also carries messages from one region to another.

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'Our study provides the first evidence that there are changes related to love in the structure of the brain. And the results have opened a new door to explore the mechanisms of a romantic love ' , according to team leader Professor Xiaochu Zhang of China University of Science and Technology in Hefei in the newspaper. published on Frontiers in Human Neuroscience magazine. The research team believes that the word can create a way to determine the situation of love in a person, or simply to know if this person is in love.

A previous survey in the UK showed that it seems that for men, the term 'true and unique love' rarely occurs, with more than 50% of participants admitting to love more than one person. their life (not to mention their partners). Meanwhile, the number of sex falls in women is less than that of the opposite sex , with about 45% giving love on two people. To determine whether a relationship could last a lifetime or face the risk of premature death, two experts Leora Friedberg and Steven Stern of the University of Virginia (USA) said it was possible to know through two questions. That is: 'How happy do you feel in marriage compared to the happiness you get if you are single? , and 'How do you think your spouse will have an answer? . A couple named Helen and Maurice Kaye, currently 101 and 102 years old, shared the secret of lasting marriage for 80 years. Most importantly, be patient and tolerant of each other, and if there is love, you can overcome all obstacles that may threaten marriage happiness.