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Brain shrinks when you fall in love, says study

Brain shrinks when you fall in love, says study

Do you know that feeling of losing control that being in love brings? Neuroscientists at the National Institute of Physiological Sciences in Japan decided to better understand why this is happening, and of course the best way to do this was to analyze brains of young people in love.

They performed brain imaging tests of 113 participants, among half of whom had been in a relationship for at least a month and the others were single. A questionnaire was also created in which they should describe their happiness at the time of the research.

It was observed that those who were in a relationship recently showed more happiness and had reduced dorsal striatum area compared to the same point of the brain in the bachelors. This area is related to our reward system, making us feel good, as it is able to recognize positive stimuli such as sex, eating good things or using drugs, even.

The research, however, could not explain why this happens with the brains of the lovers. They believe this can happen as a reaction to the "symptoms of love," since the gray matter is able to change over the years, according to each person.

The difference in the size of this area of ​​the brain demonstrates that the body works to adapt to the new state of happiness that marks the beginning of relationships, preventing the reward system from being overloaded. So when you think of a loved one and feel great happiness, the gray matter needs to balance the emotions through the striatum.

Despite the various theories raised by scholars, further studies are still needed to determine exactly what causes area of ​​the brain. Another alternative would be that people with the smaller striatum tend to fall in love. However, the British Psychological Society has discovered that when we overload the reward system of the brain, the striatum shrinks. The problem is that the tests were done with cocaine addicts.


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