
The science behind heartbreak: How to move on, and is there a cure?
Life Examined
What Did You Learn From Helen Fisher?
i recognized it as a feeling of sort of fear and anxiety that was lasting a long time. A biological anthropologist has spent many years studying what happens to our brains when we fall in love. She says there are two interesting parts of the brain that seem to get really activated in heartbreak. And one is the part of the brain associated just with pain, so that we tend to actually register the pain in very similar tures of thebrain that we register physical pain.
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