All you need is love
| 18 November, 2010 | Richard P. Grant |
4
|
|
Could falling in love be a panacea for the chronic pain that is often associated with aging? The thought has certainly crossed the mind of Faculty Member Felix Viana, whose latest evaluation is of a very popular article in PLoS ONE, “Viewing pictures of a romantic partner reduces experimental pain: involvement of neural reward systems.”1
Felix brings a peculiarly Latin perspective to this paper:
Many of us have been passionately in love at least once in our life, and we know well how powerful and consuming the physical chemistry underneath this feeling can be. Verbal descriptors of that very special affective state are often common to those used during an addiction to hard drugs, and can cross intercultural and linguistic boundaries (e.g. in English ‘to be hooked’, in Spanish ‘estar enganchado’)
even going so far as to suggest the experiment should be repeated with older couple in the first stage of an adulterous relationship—with the caveat that such experimental subjects might not be readily forthcoming.
More evaluations like this, please.
|
|
previous post
Love is a tonic for all ages. It brings one to an orbit what is called euphoric state. The chemicals in the brain that populate are different from those when one is depressed. Depression has a wide ranging effect on the body, one of them causing platelets to rupture which leads to the formation of thrombus in the blood capillaries with disastrous consequences. Falling in love at a later stage of life may be hard to come by, yet there are avenues among contemporaries that are less encumbered and less enmeshed with their siblings.
Nirmal Kumar Mishra
Retd. University Professor of Zoology, Patna University, Patna (India)
And what would say materialists/evolutionists in this case? Evolutionary advantage of love? Ha-ha-ha
Beautiful. I totally agree. I am experiencing it myself at this later stage in life (just sixty complete). It has enormously improved my personality , confidence , expression and my vision. I look more attractive than I used to. People have been complimenting me on my personality.
Fantastic, Vinay.