The work was done by Stephanie Nettles, Department of Psychology at Syracuse University in New York, who has long been investigating the relationship between human sentiments like love or passion, and his counterpart at the level of brain activity.
It aims to develop clinical models that explain-and demonstrate-that the body reacts in specific ways to different feelings. To do this, reviewed thousands of studies of imaging techniques, EEG, CT, among others, and reviewed the medical records of patients, to identify areas of the brain associated with different types of love: from a mother feels by his son to the love between people with disabilities.
At the conclusion of the study, published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, Nettles says that in addition to substances such as dopamine and oxytocin-known long-have to do with love, this meta-analysis shows that different types of love involve to different parts of the brain. And up to 12 brain areas react in a particular way to this feeling, including those related to intellectual ability.
"Falling in love, an individual puts into action a dozen brain areas. These areas work in coordination and release neurotransmitter molecules such as dopamine and adrenaline, which generates different emotional responses, "said Nettles.
These complex emotional responses ranging from the beloved metaphors and ideas about body image to see traditional cardiac acceleration to reach the loved one. "Love is so complex that works in general on the body and metabolism," says Nettles.
Given this evidence, the expert says it would have to reconsider all the iconography that wins the romantic heart of the central role in the process of love ... and may be replaced by an image of the brain.
Nettles analyzed different types of love as unconditional love often feel a mother for her child, which seems to affect different parts of the brain that are impacted by the occasional love, which exists between people with disabilities or stable love partner.
In its findings, the researcher explains that the infatuation, the feeling of love, triggers this cascade of reactions that are often accompanied, at least in the early days, a feeling of great euphoria. It also states that although the process of falling in love takes time, when love is found, this mechanism is triggered in just a second.
And returns, this wonderful impact on brain activity is what can be measured with modern technology.
