How Your Brain Falls In Love

have you ever wondered what it's like to be in love not the kind of love portrayed in rom-coms which usually comes about after a series of meet cute and dramatic breakups but the kind of love that suddenly occurs to you when looking at your significant other and you realize that you want to stay by their side as long as you can what happens in between those two moments how do you end up falling in love there are several theories and ideas about how people fall in love most of them are abstract b

ut let's focus on the theories that have some scientific evidence body on a physiological level there are many signs and symptoms you may experience sweaty Palms racing hearts and butterflies all of these symptoms are simply a response to the thousands of biochemical interactions happening inside of you you hold hands and oxytocin is activated you go on a date and get home feeling like you're in the clouds cortisol levels have decreased the early stages of falling in love are governed by a serie

s of complex reactions this is what we sometimes think of as romance this stage is filled with angst passion and wanting to spend every second with that other person although it's common in the early stages of a relationship it can happen multiple times through a long lasting relationship too mind but what happens neurologically why do you fall in love in 2015 doctors Richard Schwartz and Jacqueline old published their findings based on studies on love one of their findings supported the idea th

at love or being in love is a primitive need this concept was supported by Helen Fisher's 2005 study which presents fmri images of the brain when it's in love regions of the brain like the quotient nucleus and ventral tegmental areas are active when researchers showed participants images of their romantic Partners the ventral Tech mental is associated with pleasure attention and motivation to pursue Rewards it's no wonder these regions light up in these participants the brains of these participa

nts Associated their partners with pleasure and detention additionally these two regions are involved in a primitive neural network that enables us to go after things we desire that is possibly why we constantly seek for the person we love another region involved in Falling in Love is the nucleus accumbens the nucleus accumbens is responsible for activities connected to goals and rewards be it food sex regulating stress and self-behavior administration this region together with the prefrontal co

rtex and the amygdala is responsible for helping us make assessments of others but when in love this region shuts down hence the famous saying love is blind in a conversation with Harvard medical journal Dr old asserted we know that primitive areas of the brain are involved in romantic love and that these areas light up on brain scans when talking about a loved one of course there are other factors at Play not only are these regions activated but also dopamine oxytocin and vasopressins which all

play a role in the attachment process dopamine gets released as a result of the activation in the reward center the oxytocin is released during physical contact but oxytocin is not just a feel-good neurotransmitter it works together with vasopressin to create attachment that suppressant is what produces long-term relationships if oxytocin is What deepens feelings after two people have sex then vasopressin produces long-term attachment the settling of these two chemicals is what helps calm the i

nitial early relationship Jitters once the relationship has calmed down many people believe that love has died out but that's not the case Dr Schwartz and old proved these regions are still active in people who have been married for over a decade a state-of-the-art investigation of love has confirmed for the very first time that people are not lying when they say that after 10 to 30 years of marriage they're still madly in love with their partners love begins with romance which is necessary to f

all in love to feel your hearts give a few beats and to have that wonderful desire to see the person you love this is how you slowly become attached to them and eventually fall in love have you learned something new from this video let us know in the comments and thanks so much for watching until next time