Love isn’t just something that’s churned out of a Hallmark greeting card factory or delivered fresh from your local florist. It’s something that involves one of the most important organs of the human body — your brain.
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, AsapSCIENCE breaks down the science of being in love. In this well-crafted stop-motion animation lecture, AsapSCIENCE discuss how a brain in love shares similar qualities to a brain on cocaine and how the chemicals dopamine and norepinephrine bring out the motivation, desire and craving to be with your significant other. It’s not just peer pressure and those engagement ring ads that tell you to be with the one you love, it’s the chemicals and the body functions that make you take action.
See how falling in love affects the human body in the viral YouTube clip below:
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[…] I have a love/hate relationship with news anchors. Back in my small hometown, as a teenager, I fell hard for a news anchor. I started telling all my friends in town about it, and pretty soon they would tell her that “Jeff Klima has a crush on you.” She began to hear it from everywhere — including one of her cameramen (yup, I was popular — also kind of a stalker creep, I guess). Long story short, she found out I worked at the mall movie theatre and went down there with her co-anchor. They held hands, walked around the theatre and then left without watching a movie. Sigh, I got the point. […]