研究显示 爱情和毒品一样会让你上瘾
Love is known to cause symptoms similar to those seen with addiction, and has even been linked to addiction-like activity in the brain. But, scientists remain divided on whether you truly can become addicted to love. The researchers from Oxford University Centre for Neuroethics looked at 64 studies on love and addiction published between 1956 and 2016, according to New Scientist. As with drugs, the team found that love can trigger reward signals in the brain and can cause euphoria – but, it can also lead to cravings, obsessive behaviour, and grief when a relationship ends. The team identified two distinct ways to describe love addiction: a 'narrow' view and a 'broad' view. 'The narrow view counts only the most extreme, harmful forms of love,' the authors wrote in the study. According to the researchers, 'narrow' love addiction is the result of abnormal processes in the brain's reward center. This form of love addiction is thought to be 'quite rare,' and has been linked to attachment behaviours that interfere with other aspects of that person's everyday life. And, it's even led to stalking and murder, according to New Scientist. 'Broad' love addiction, on the other hand, is more like typical love, though cravings are stronger. 'The broad view, by contrast, counts even basic social attachment as being on a spectrum of addictive motivations, underwritten by similar neurochemical processes as more conventional addictions.' Both of these forms, though, can cause harm, as they can lead to unhealthy and even abusive relationships. |