Submission + - Love hurts - according to a study. (yanglish.ru)
Yanglish writes: MRIs were used on 40 people who recently went through a breakup. The National Academy of Sciences found the regions of the brain responding to physical pain overlap those reacting to emotional pain as well. So love really does hurt."
A doctor from University Hospitals Case Medical Center explains, the results could possibly change the way the medical and psychological communities view heartbreak.
In previous studies, it's been thought that rejection would have influenced or been processed by the affective centers in the brain — the emotional centers — where, in this study, what they showed was, it was actually the very pain centers that would be associated with a painful stimulus that responded, or lit up, really.
The team analyzed 150 brain-scan experiments on negative emotions — fear, anxiety, anger, sadness — and found that none of these emotionally painful experiences activate the brain's physical sensory areas in the same way as an undesired breakup.
A doctor from University Hospitals Case Medical Center explains, the results could possibly change the way the medical and psychological communities view heartbreak.
In previous studies, it's been thought that rejection would have influenced or been processed by the affective centers in the brain — the emotional centers — where, in this study, what they showed was, it was actually the very pain centers that would be associated with a painful stimulus that responded, or lit up, really.
The team analyzed 150 brain-scan experiments on negative emotions — fear, anxiety, anger, sadness — and found that none of these emotionally painful experiences activate the brain's physical sensory areas in the same way as an undesired breakup.