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Unfolding Nature Shop: Unfolding Nature: Being in the Implicate Order

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    #6563744 - 02/13/07 05:29 PM (17 years, 1 month ago)

Experts: Love is a powerful drug
February 13, 2007 - UPI

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., Feb. 13 (UPI) -- A Rutgers University professor in New Brunswick, N.J., says the chemical reaction in the brain commonly known as "love" is similar to a drug reaction.

Helen Fisher, an anthropologist and author of "Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love," said love, a feeling brought about by chemical dopamine, and infatuation, which is caused by norepinephrine, have effects on the human brain comparable to those caused by drugs, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.

"Love is a drug," Fisher said. "The ventral tegmental area is a clump of cells that make dopamine, a natural stimulant, and sends it out to many brain regions" when one is in love. "It's the same region affected when you feel the rush of cocaine."

Pamela Regan, a professor of psychology at California State University, Los Angeles, and author of "Mind Games: A Primer on Love, Sex and Marriage," agrees that the chemical reaction of love is a powerful one -- and one that cannot be sustained indefinitely.

"Our bodies can't be in that state all the time," she said. "Your body would fizzle out. As a species, we'd die."

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Re: Addcited to love [Re: veggie]
    #6563760 - 02/13/07 05:32 PM (17 years, 1 month ago)

obviously this can't be related to "love"; either that, or we aren't always in love with those we say we are


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Re: Addicted to love [Re: demiu5]
    #6563788 - 02/13/07 05:37 PM (17 years, 1 month ago)

I actually wrote a paper on this in college. Other chemicals involved are oxytocin (also released when a new mother is becoming close to her child) and phenethylamine (also found in chocolate). These plus dopamine, serotonin, norepinephrine and endorphins all combine to form a chemical cocktail in the brain. It lasts on average from about 6 months to a year. After that, it is pretty critical that you actually be compatible with the person you are "in love" with, otherwise you fall "out of love" pretty quickly.

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Re: Addicted to love [Re: Lily_Morgan]
    #6564104 - 02/13/07 06:57 PM (17 years, 1 month ago)

If you still have your paper on this subject, I would love to read it. Or any recomondations on any books?


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Re: Addicted to love [Re: MustNotBe]
    #6565121 - 02/13/07 11:39 PM (17 years, 1 month ago)

Will the government make love illegal next?

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Re: Addicted to love [Re: odd_one]
    #6565130 - 02/13/07 11:43 PM (17 years, 1 month ago)

Only if you pay for it.
(Dinner and a movie doesn't count :smirk:)

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