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| - | In summary, love is a deep emotional experience and mental states ranging from affection to pleasures, influenced significantly by our desire orlust, attraction, and attachment towards someone. The more we experience these positive affections or pleasures, the more activated our brain’s reward circuit becomes. This acts as a positive feedback loop which is affected by multiple neurotransmitters and hormones that affect different components of love. There are many structures involved with the feeling of love including the caudate nucleus and the ventral tegmental area, also known as the reward circuit. These are also linked with the nucleus accumbens, the hippocampus, amygdala, and the prefrontal cortex. Within these structures, chemicals and hormones such as dopamine, norepinephrine, serotonin, vasopressin, oxytocin, testosterone and estrogen play an important role in the emotion of love. The mechanism of heartbreak is yet to be fully understood, but many journal articles propose sudden declines in dopamine and oxytocin, increased cortisol, as well as low opioid levels to be correlated to feelings of social separation distress, similarly observed in heartbreak. The "hate circuit" has also shown groundbreaking evidence on how certain areas of the brain, specifically the medial frontal gyrus, right putamen, premotor cortex and medial insula, are correlated to motor planning and predicting other’s behaviour when feeling hate towards someone. Overall love, heartbreak, and hate are complex human emotions that are equally as different, as they are similar. | + | In summary, love is a deep emotional experience and comprises of mental states ranging from affection to pleasures, influenced significantly by our desire or lust, attraction, and attachment towards someone. The more we experience these positive affections or pleasures, the more activated our brain’s reward circuit becomes. This acts as a positive feedback loop which is affected by multiple neurotransmitters and hormones that affect different components of love. There are many structures involved with the feeling of love including the caudate nucleus and the ventral tegmental area, also known as the reward circuit. These are also linked with the nucleus accumbens, the hippocampus, amygdala, and the prefrontal cortex. Within these structures, chemicals and hormones such as dopamine, norepinephrine, serotonin, vasopressin, oxytocin, testosterone and estrogen play an important role in the emotion of love. The mechanism of heartbreak is yet to be fully understood, but many journal articles propose sudden declines in dopamine and oxytocin, increased cortisol, as well as low opioid levels to be correlated to feelings of social separation distress, similarly observed in heartbreak. The "hate circuit" has also shown groundbreaking evidence on how certain areas of the brain, specifically the medial frontal gyrus, right putamen, premotor cortex and medial insula, are correlated to motor planning and predicting other’s behaviour when feeling hate towards someone. Overall love, heartbreak, and hate are complex human emotions that are equally as different, as they are similar. |
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