Del llibre de la Helen Fischer, Why we love, resumeixo la part que parla de 3 neurotransmisors essencials, que, segons l'autora, expliquen bona part de lo tontos i tontes que ens posem quan ens enamorem. Eps, no us equivoqueu, això no serveix d'excusa, però espero que us serveixi, com a mi em serveix, per a conèixer-vos una mica millor. Podeu trobar més informació de les molècules a la Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page)
Dopamine
Attention, motivation: Elevated levels of dopamine in the brain produce extremely focussed attention, as well as unwavering motivation and goal-directed behaviors. Also has been associated with learning about novel stimuli and uncertainty.
Preference: Favoritism is associated with heightened levels of dopamine in specific brain regions.
Ecstasy: Elevated concetrations of dopamine produce exhiliration, as well as many other feelings that lovers report, including increased energy, hyperactivity, sleeplessness, loss of appetite, trembling, a pounding heart, accelerated breathing, and sometimes mania, anxiety, or fear.
Dependency/craving: As symptoms of addiction - and all of the majors adicitions are associated with elevated levels of dopamine.
Persistence: When a reward is delayed, dopamine-producing cells in the brain increase their work, pumping out more of this natural stimulant to energize the brain, focus attention, and drive the pursuer to strive even harder to acquire a reward: in this case, winning one's swetheart. Is the substance that preserves arousal and enhances delaying pleassure.
Desire: As dopamine increases in the brain, it often drives up levels of testosterone, the hormone of sexual desire.
Norepinephrine
Preference: Favoritism is associated with heightened levels of dopamine in specific brain regions.
Ecstasy: Elevated concetrations of dopamine produce exhiliration, as well as many other feelings that lovers report, including increased energy, hyperactivity, sleeplessness, loss of appetite, trembling, a pounding heart, accelerated breathing, and sometimes mania, anxiety, or fear.
Dependency/craving: As symptoms of addiction - and all of the majors adicitions are associated with elevated levels of dopamine.
Persistence: When a reward is delayed, dopamine-producing cells in the brain increase their work, pumping out more of this natural stimulant to energize the brain, focus attention, and drive the pursuer to strive even harder to acquire a reward: in this case, winning one's swetheart. Is the substance that preserves arousal and enhances delaying pleassure.
Desire: As dopamine increases in the brain, it often drives up levels of testosterone, the hormone of sexual desire.
Norepinephrine
A chemical derived from dopamine. Its effects depends on the part of the brain it activates. Increases of this stimulant generally produce exhilaration, excessive energy, sleeplessness and loss of appetite. Also help explain why the lover can remember the smallest details of the beloved's actions and cherished moments spent together. This liquor is associated with increased memory for stimuli.
Serotonin
A striking symptom of romantic love is incessant thinking about the beloved. Lovers are obsessed. And most of doctors who treat individuals with most forms of obsessive-compulsive disorder prescribe SSRIs (Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors) such as Prozac or Zolofr, substances that elevate levels of serotonin in the brain. And as a love affair intensifies, this irresistible obsessive thinking can increase - due to a negative relationship between serotonin and its relatives dopamine and norepinephrine. This could explain why a lover's increasing romantic ecstasy actually intensifies the compulsion to daydream, fantasize, muse, ponder, obsess about a romantic partner.
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