When you fall in love, what happens to your brain?

When we fall in love It seems that the butterflies we feel in our stomach when we see the person of our dreams are nothing more than a chemical reaction in our brain. We can now say goodbye to romanticism.They say that love is a disease and they may be right. You are never prepared for that moment when Cupid arrives and settles in with all his belongings, with no possibility of return and leaving you immersed in the most absolute surrender. However, whether you like it or not, your brain is faster than your body and knows when the hunt has occurred.

Before your body feels like something weird is happening every time you see, think, hear or kiss them, your brain has already realized that you are deeply in love with the person in front of you. Because falling in love affects the brain, not only creating emotions but also chemical addictions. Adrenaline, serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin, testosterone and vasopressin are the hormones that come into play when love comes to you. And according to studies revealed by the INECO Foundation, some other mental disorder as well.Because? Because of the mythical obsessive-compulsive syndrome. When the levels of serotonin – stimulants of the pleasure receptors in the brain-drop, this disorder appears, and although it is true that we can suffer from it on numerous occasions throughout our lives, when it comes to love it is more common to suffer from it. Some of the characteristics of this syndrome are: objective non-perfection of the relationship, difficulty seeing the negative aspects of your partner and total concentration on the other person.

Although in the first phase of falling in love we have to talk about adrenaline and norepinephrine, responsible for making the heart race. An action that is closely linked to the release of dopamine by the brain, which affects the perception of the senses, generating an increase in excitement and motivation. Which is intrinsically linked to chemical and physical attraction. Your mythical stupid face that you are aware of once the time necessary to know that everyone has already noticed has passed.The hormones oxytocin and vasopressin also have a lot to say, once again, at the brain level. These hormones are responsible for providing security, stability and comfort to the relationship. Your levels will skyrocket if you are in love.All these results revealed by the INECO Foundation which, after several studies linked to neuroscience, have also revealed that high doses of morphine allow a more exhaustive recognition of faces in photographs, potentially awakening attraction for that person. And it has a simple scientific explanation: falling in love not only affects you chemically and physically, it also improves cognitive functions: body image, mental representation, self-esteem and motivation. In the end, everything about love isn’t so bad, right?