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[claudia westermann]

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sometimes I am dreaming about a boy who would live this knowledge

it is a strange dream


living knowledge is essentially female


I suspect


                      I will always find an excuse for those I love


- c



>"As it turns out, romantic love is probably best
>characterized as a motivation or goal-oriented state
>that leads to various specific emotions, such as
>euphoria or anxiety," Aron noted. "With this view, it
>becomes clearer why the lover expresses such an
>imperative to pursue his or her beloved and protect
>the relationship."
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>Our findings show that the brain areas activated when
>someone looks at a photo of their beloved only
>partially overlap with the brain regions associated
>with sexual arousal. Sex and romantic love involve
>quite different brain systems."
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>(1) early stage, intense romantic love is associated
>with subcortical reward regions rich with dopamine;
>and (2) romantic love engages brain systems associated
>with motivation to acquire a reward.
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>Helen E. Fisher, a research anthropologist at Rutgers
>University, New Jersey, noted that not only did the
>brain change as romantic love endured, but that some
>of these changes were in regions associated with
>pair-bonding in prairie voles. The fMRI images showed
>more activity in the ventral pallidum portion of the
>basal ganglia in people with longer romantic
>relationships. It's in this region where receptors for
>the hormone vasopressin are critical for vole
>pair-bonding, or attachment.
>"Humans have evolved three distinct but interrelated
>brain systems for mating and reproduction – the sex
>drive, romantic love, and attachment to a long term
>partner," Fisher said, "and our results suggest how
>feelings of romantic love might change into feelings
>of attachment. Our results support what people have
>always assumed – that romantic love is one of the most
>powerful of all human experiences. It is definitely
>more powerful than the sex drive."
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>For instance, Fisher point out, "If someone rejects
>your sexual overtures, you don't harm yourself or the
>other person. But rejected men and women in societies
>around the world sometimes kill themselves or someone
>else. In fact, studies indicate that some 40% of
>people who are rejected in love slip into clinical
>depression. Our study may also suggest some of the
>underlying physiology of stalking behavior," she
>added.
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>Source and funding
>
>The study, "Reward, motivation and emotion systems
>associated with early-stage intense romantic love," is
>available online and will be in the July issue of the
>Journal of Neurophysiology, published by the American
>Physiological Society.
>ttp://www.the-aps.org/meetings/aps/steamboat/index.htm
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