How Relationships affect your Brain ?
......From...The New York Times
Thanks to a new field called interpersonal neurobiology, scientists are figuring out how feelings of love (or lack of them ) can affect specific areas of the brain .
The evidence :
TOUCH HEALS
At the university of Virginia scientists threatened married women with an electric shock. When the women held their husbands' hands during the experiment, their anterior cingulate cortexes and other pain -and anxiety-related centers in the brain showed significantly less activation than when they held hands with others or with no one .
FAMILIARITY BREEDS CONTENT
Research from Stony Brook University ,USA, showed that when men and women in happy relationships looked at photographs of their partners , their brain's pleasure centre, including the accumbens, lit up. The brains of long-married couples also registered feelings of attachment and calm in the globus pallidus (a central region of the brain involved in the regulation of voluntary movement ) and other regions .
LOVE HURTS
According to Columbia University scientists, the same ares of the brain associated with physical pain, such as the dorsal posterior insula, are active when someone experiences rejection.
Enjoy Reading
Harpreet Cheema (JBIT Dehradun )
http://jbitdoon.com/
......From...The New York Times
Thanks to a new field called interpersonal neurobiology, scientists are figuring out how feelings of love (or lack of them ) can affect specific areas of the brain .
The evidence :
TOUCH HEALS
At the university of Virginia scientists threatened married women with an electric shock. When the women held their husbands' hands during the experiment, their anterior cingulate cortexes and other pain -and anxiety-related centers in the brain showed significantly less activation than when they held hands with others or with no one .
FAMILIARITY BREEDS CONTENT
Research from Stony Brook University ,USA, showed that when men and women in happy relationships looked at photographs of their partners , their brain's pleasure centre, including the accumbens, lit up. The brains of long-married couples also registered feelings of attachment and calm in the globus pallidus (a central region of the brain involved in the regulation of voluntary movement ) and other regions .
LOVE HURTS
According to Columbia University scientists, the same ares of the brain associated with physical pain, such as the dorsal posterior insula, are active when someone experiences rejection.
Enjoy Reading
Harpreet Cheema (JBIT Dehradun )
No comments:
Post a Comment