RICHMOND PARK INTERNATIONAL SECONDARY SCHOOL

Psychology of Brain in Love

Nađa Brkanović & Amra Ibreljić Professor:

Adisa Delić
Sarajevo, October 2023

INTRODUCTION:
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Thorugh this research we will analyze the brain in love. We want to see whether the brain
changes when it is in love or not. If it changes, how and why does it change, and in what
ways does it change. We will also try to observe does it function differently than the one
which is not in love. As we previously mentioned we want to see whether the brain changes
or not, we believe that it does, and that is what we will try to prove through this research.

LITERATURE REVIEW:
You can't eat. You can't rest. Your stomach and heart shudder when this individual gets in
touch with you or proposes getting to know one another. Seems like every one of the
indications you might be experiencing passionate feelings for.

However, what occurs in your mind when you start to feel lovestruck? Furthermore, how
does the mind change over the long haul with regards to adore?

"Love is an organic need — it's depending on the situation for our prosperity as exercise,
water, and food," said neuroscientist Stephanie Cacioppo, PhD, creator of Wired for
Affection: A Neuroscientist's Process Through Sentiment, Misfortune, and the Quintessence
of Human Association (Macmillan, 2022). "Furthermore, from a neuroscientific perspective,
we can truly say that adoration blooms in the mind."

Twenty years of exploration has shown that with regards to beginning phase extreme heartfelt
love — the thoughtful we frequently consider when we discuss being lovestruck — an
exceptionally crude piece of the mind's prize framework, situated in the midbrain, is enacted
first, as per Lucy Brown, PhD, a neuroscientist and teacher of nervous system science at
Einstein School of Medication in New York.

Brown and her lab accomplices utilized practical attractive reverberation imaging (fMRI) to
concentrate on 10 ladies and seven men who were with great intensity "in affection," in view
of their scores on the enthusiastic love scale, a 14-thing survey intended to evaluate the

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mental, close to home, and conduct parts of energetic love that relationship scientists have
broadly utilized for quite a long time.

Individuals who score in the most elevated scope of this evaluation are considered as being
fiercely, even foolishly, enamored. The people who score in the least reach have honestly lost
their rush for their accomplice.

Members in Earthy colored's concentrate on the other hand saw a photo of their darling and a
photo of a recognizable individual. While survey the photograph of their significant other,
members experienced cerebrum enactment in the midbrain's ventral tegmental region (VTA),
which is the piece of the mind associated with addressing fundamental requirements, for
example, drinking when we're parched and it we're eager to eat when.

"The region of the cerebrum controls things like gulping and other essential reflexes," Brown
said. "While we frequently consider heartfelt love this euphoric, undefined thing and as a
perplexing inclination, the enactment we find in this extremely fundamental piece of the mind
is letting us know that heartfelt love is really a drive to satisfy an essential need."

Extra fMRI studies led by Cacioppo shed all the more light on what love means for your
mind. Her group found 12 region of the cerebrum cooperate to deliver synthetics, for
example, the "vibe great" chemical dopamine, the "snuggle chemical" oxytocin, and
adrenaline, which instigates an euphoric feeling of direction. Her discoveries likewise
demonstrated that the cerebrum's prize circuit — the amygdala, the hippocampus, and the
prefrontal cortex — which is extremely delicate to ways of behaving that prompt delight,
illuminated on mind filters while discussing a friend or family member in view of expanded
blood stream there.

While this is all occurrence, Cacioppo noticed, our degrees of serotonin — a critical chemical
in managing hunger and nosy concerns, drop. Low degrees of serotonin are normal among
those with nervousness and fanatical impulsive issues.

"This makes sense of why individuals in the beginning phases of affection can become
fixated on little subtleties, going through hours bantering about a text to or from their
darling," she said. Heartfelt love is a mental express that includes outrageous elation and
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sensations of enthusiasm and closeness for another person. It tends to be described utilizing
Dr. Helen Fisher's arrangement of developmental, brain, and hormonal profiles that are
unmistakable from those of fascination and connection, which are two extra love-related
processes. A wide survey of logical articles, exemplary writing, and mainstream society is
utilized to characterize heartfelt love, and to investigate its particular transformative, brain,
and hormonal qualities. The chance of heartfelt love under exceptional conditions is then
investigated.

The conversation is explicitly centered around the possibility of affection without actual
contact as highlighted in Spike Jonze's 2013 film, Her. Consequences of this writing and
examination audit support the hypothesis that heartfelt love is an intoxicating condition that
smothers judgment, and subsequently heartfelt love under these particular circumstances is,
for sure, conceivable.

All through this organization, socio-social, developmental, mental, and physiological

hypothetical viewpoints are introduced in a casual exchange to make this subject available to
an interdisciplinary crowd.

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY:
 Participants:
- we will take take 10 people who are in love, in a relationship or married. 5 of
them will be between 15 and 25 years old, the others will be from 26 to 35+
- the other group will be 10 of them who are not in love, in a a relationship nor
married, same age groups as the previous ones
(We have decided to put age groups in order to see if there will be any differences
that depend upon age).

 Method:
- The method we decided to use is descriptive. We will use case study, as we know
this method is conducted by observation of one participant or a group of
participants. So we will observe ones that are in love / relationship / married and

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 ones who are not. Information can be gathered by observation, interview or by
psychological testing.

 Procedure:
- Data collection technique that we decided to use is a test. The test will be on
Google Forms, the participants will recieve the test on their email that they
previously gave.
 Materials:
- We will make our own test, the participants will be asked to enter their age and
their status, whether they are in love / relationship / married or non of the above.
All the participants will have exact same questions, some will be similar to
questionnaire, some will be essay. The test will be anonymous and every question
will have instructions on the way how they are supposed to be answered.

KNOWLEDGEABLE CONTRIBUTIONS:
Through this research we may come to a conclusion whether our brain changes in love or not.
If it changes in what ways, do we function differently than when we are not in love, do we act
different or not.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Janna-Dickenson/publication/
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directions.pdf
https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/ben/cpsr/2005/00000001/00000003/art00010