Comments on: Love on the brain

By: goldhat.org

goldhat.org — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 01:00:06 +0000

Love on the brain…

What goes on in the brain when we’re in love?…

By: Bay Window Curtains

Bay Window Curtains — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 15:49:26 +0000

This article gives the light in which we can observe the reality. I have taken another good point of thoughts from “LOVE” that would make a person to think of. LOVE has a profound meaning in which people are trying to gain. You can never buy LOVE or see LOVE anywhere and give it to somebody; but you must have to start living with LOVE before you can give it. Thanks for sharing this nice and interesting

By: Warren Davies

Warren Davies — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 08:18:26 +0000

I’m not sure how that 15% was arrived at. Other sources have said categorically there is no culture without romantic love, so that figure’s possibly unreliable.

By: Frank P.

Frank P. — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 02:39:52 +0000

Interesting, almost 15% of societies have no evidence of romantic love? I’d be curious to see how those numbers were arrived at. We represent brain injury attorney los angeles specialists, and it’s fascinating, and sad, to see how physical brain trauma changes people’s emotional life dramatically – so it’s interesting to see how far we’ve come in understanding brain chemistry around love. Thanks for the article.

By: Warren Davies

Warren Davies — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 23:03:21 +0000

Potentially, yes. The logic is that the chemicals that SSRIs and other drugs interfere with are the same drugs that cause the reaction of love when were presented with a suitable partner, and all the physical ’symptoms’ that go along with that.

There is no direct evidence of this as yet, but it’s starting to look like such drugs may inhibit the ‘love response’ (can I coin that term? Sounds like a potential book title..) so to speak, as the indirect evidence points in that direction. For example, interfering with dopamine in animals can affect pair-bonding, and certain antidepressants are used to curb the obsessive and intrusive thinking that helps us to feel love. And the effect of antidepressants on libido is well documented.

On the other hand, if a person’s life is severely disabled by depression, then love is probably not a huge concern. Recreational drug use may be more of a concern in that regard, as typically they manipulate dopamine (eg cocaine, amphetamine) and/or serotonin (eg MDMA/ecstasy) systems. But like I say, no direct evidence of this link as yet, but the evidence collected so far tends that way.

By: mohinder

mohinder — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:18:20 +0000

you wrote “then our experience of love could be influence by anything that interferes with these chemicals – recreational drugs and anti-depressants in particular”

Can you explain what you mean by this? Drugs and anti-depressants interfere with the ability to be or fall in love?