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04-12-2016, 12:17 PM
Breaking up (http://start.westnet.ca/newstempch.php?article=divorce/) is hard to do. Whether you're doing the dumping or getting dumped, chances are you feel pretty upset. And there's a scientific explanation for this, as the Bustle video above (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ2zJ13AfDI) details. During a breakup, your brain gently reminds you of your love.
Neuroscientist Dr. Lucy Brown told Bustle about her famed 2010 experiment (http://jn.physiology.org/content/104/1/51), in which her team looked at the brains of the recently jilted with the help of an MRI machine. Participants were shown photos of both a platonic pal and a recent ex, and the brains' responses to each photo were then compared.
Brown found that a photo of an ex activated the same brain regions that are stimulated when someone's going through cocaine withdrawal. In other words, she concluded, love is a drug and it's really hard to quit. When a relationship is over, there's still a part of the brain that keeps love alive.
"When we look at the picture of the person [we broke up with], there's pain, but the main thing is you're still in love with them. That's really at a non-verbal level of the brain," said Brown.
This can be helpful to know: When you're feeling awful post-breakup, you're not being "crazy," (http://start.westnet.ca/newstempch.php?article=entry/self-compassion-meditation-exercise-be-nice-to-yourself_us_56b26bcde4b01d80b244f24c) you're simply being human. Learn more about it in Bustle's video. Understanding why you feel so bad might help make it better.
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Neuroscientist Dr. Lucy Brown told Bustle about her famed 2010 experiment (http://jn.physiology.org/content/104/1/51), in which her team looked at the brains of the recently jilted with the help of an MRI machine. Participants were shown photos of both a platonic pal and a recent ex, and the brains' responses to each photo were then compared.
Brown found that a photo of an ex activated the same brain regions that are stimulated when someone's going through cocaine withdrawal. In other words, she concluded, love is a drug and it's really hard to quit. When a relationship is over, there's still a part of the brain that keeps love alive.
"When we look at the picture of the person [we broke up with], there's pain, but the main thing is you're still in love with them. That's really at a non-verbal level of the brain," said Brown.
This can be helpful to know: When you're feeling awful post-breakup, you're not being "crazy," (http://start.westnet.ca/newstempch.php?article=entry/self-compassion-meditation-exercise-be-nice-to-yourself_us_56b26bcde4b01d80b244f24c) you're simply being human. Learn more about it in Bustle's video. Understanding why you feel so bad might help make it better.
-- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. (http://start.westnet.ca/newstempch.php?article=terms.html/) It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.
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