“Love is blind and is accompanied by madness.” For the expert Helen Fisher, this state of dementia is produced by the levels of dopamine and norepinephrine that increase when falling in love and that make us experience absolute happiness .
According to Fisher, the key to falling in love is found in time and cultural elements. You have to be ready to feel in that moment, and childhood experiences count too.
As we grow we develop an unconscious profile of what we are going to look for based on the experience of our parents, of the school, of our friends. And when you are at the right time and you find the person who fits that profile, the brain circuits can be put into operation and chemical reactions are triggered .
3 negative effects of love
Although it is an experience that most feel at some point in their life, love does not always have positive effects. Here we tell you three of them.
1. Love has a price .
In other words, it costs the loss of two close friends, according to a study by the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom . This happens because attention is focused on the romantic partner, to whom more time is spent, allowing other relationships to begin to deteriorate.
2. Prevent your work.
A study published in the journal Motivation and Emotion points out that passionate love is exciting, so much so that it can affect a person’s ability to focus and perform tasks that require attention.
3. Generates addiction.
Researcher Lucy Brown, professor of neuroscience at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York , discovered that looking at the photo of the loved one activated both the neurons of the caudate nucleus and those of the ventral tegmentum, two brain areas linked to pleasure. Both areas fill with dopamine, which generates a reaction like that produced by a drug. This can make people addicted to falling in love.
