MRI Could Determine How in Love You Truly Are
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ABC News(NEW YORK) — A China-based study has revealed that when you are in love, your brain looks decidedly different than when you’re not in love.
“When you’re in love your brain looks happy,” Anna Zilverstand, Ph.D., a psychiatry postdoctoral fellow at Mount Sinai Hospital’s Icahn School of Medicine, told ABC News.
Zilverstand was among a group of researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine, the University of Science and Technology of China and Southwest University in Chongqing, China, who led the study.
The researchers recruited 100 college students from Southwest University and, after interviewing them, divided them into three categories: “in-love,” “ended-love” and “single.”
MRI scanners were then used to detect what was going on in the students’ brains, according to the study’s research paper published last month in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.
Students from the “in-love” category showed increased activity in multiple areas of the brain.
“There is a tiny little region of the brain that’s called the reward center and it’s activated when we’re doing things that are very pleasurable,” Zilverstand said.
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