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Well, heck, here’s a news flash: the first rush of love is an obsession, not an emotion<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When you first fall in love, you are not experiencing an emotion, but a motivation or drive, new brain scanning studies have shown.
\nThe early stages of a romantic relationship spark activity in dopamine-rich brain regions associated with motivation and reward. The more intense the relationship is, the greater the activity.
\nThe regions associated with emotion, such as the insular cortex and parts of the anterior cingulate cortex, are not activated until the more mature phases of a relationship, says Helen Fisher, an anthropologist from Rutgers University in New Jersey.<\/p>\n

Those same “crush” regions become active when you eat chocolate, too, and there are patterns of activity there that resemble those seen in obsessive\/compulsive disorder.<\/p>\n

“Crazy in love” indeed.<\/p>\n

(via BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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