Here, we look at the brain scans of people in the early stages of relationships to explore where love shows up in the brain and why it plays such an important role in human survival.
Plus, we explain what happens in the brain when we get our heart broken and what neuroscience tells us about recovering.
00:00 Why does heartbreak hurt so much?
01:08 How scientists started studying love
01:55 What happens in the brain when we fall in love
02:41 Brain chemistry: Why love is a survival system
03:21 How love changes your sense of self
04:47 The neuroscience of social bonding: What do oxytocin and vasopressin do?
05:58 Why heartbreak hurts and what it looks like in the brain
06:35 Can a broken heart make you physically ill? The effects of loss
07:06 How to recover after a breakup
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