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notseinfeld
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Love heals All?
« on: Jun 14th, 2004, 10:28am » |
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He said: "Our research enables us to conclude that human attachment employs a push-pull mechanism that overcomes social distance by deactivating networks used for critical social assessment and negative emotions, while it bonds individuals through the involvement of the reward circuitry explaining the power of love to motivate and exhilarate."
The research did highlight one difference in the brain's response to romantic and maternal love.
Only romantic love triggered heightened activity in the hypothalamus - which controls feelings of arousal.
Here's the whole article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3804545.stm
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Re: Love heals All?
« Reply #1 on: Jun 14th, 2004, 12:02pm » |
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I'm confused . . .does heightened activity mean a good thing or a bad thing?? Darn article didn't go far enough . . .
*positive light and energy*
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don
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And all that mumbo jumbo helps with my CH how?
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Re: Love heals All?
« Reply #3 on: Jun 14th, 2004, 4:49pm » |
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on Jun 14th, 2004, 3:31pm, don wrote:| And all that mumbo jumbo helps with my CH how? |
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I think it means that while beating your mule may make you go blind, it will make your episode end a week or two early.
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jonny
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My dick is hard, my nuts are smoke'in, I need some head and I aint joke'in.
Doubt it will help my brain pain.
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