Romance really does work in a similar manner as addiction to illegal substances and activates a reaction in the same part of the brain. Those strike with a firm blow will produce an emotional response, which usually involved with motivation and reward kind of stuff. The reward comes by identifying that something feels good and is worth the effort.
Our brains have been hardwired to choose a mate, and we become so motivated to win them over that we are sometimes willing to go to extreme lengths, the “Daily Mail” reported.
"You can feel happy when you're in love, but you can also feel anxious," said Lucy Brown, a neuroscientist at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. Professor Brown insisted that the reward part of the brain or pleasure centre is vital for our survival as this drives the need to have sex.
"Intense passionate love uses the same system in the brain that gets activated when a person is addicted to drugs," co-author Arthur Aron, a psychologist at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, said.
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