In the United States, February 14 is Valentine’s Day -- a day to celebrate lovers and loving relationships. Images of red hearts are everywhere. Lovers say nice things to each other, like “I love you with all my heart” or “I love you heart and soul.” After all, many cultures view a big, beautiful, red heart as the traditional sign of love. But maybe it shouldn’t be. Maybe the symbol of love should be a big, soft, gray brain. As it turns out, love is more an activity of the brain than an affair of the heart. Over the years, research has shown that love affects the brain in many ways and in a number of areas. Psychology Today magazine’s online blog looked at some studies and noted the results. The blog explains that researchers generally use a technology called functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, to study the brain. This technology can follow movement of blood inside the brain. When a thought, substance, movement, or anything else activates a part of the brain, blood flow to that area increases. So, fMRIs can identify both the exact location in the brain and the amount of blood. The magazine reports that these love studies note something similar: that a brain on love looks a lot like a brain on drugs.
Title: Love: A Chemical Explosion in Your Brain
Content: <div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1684/love_brain.m4a' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Love: A Chemical Explosion in Your Brain' data-article-id='2202'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='12167'>In the United States, February 14 is Valentine’s Day -- a day to celebrate lovers and loving relationships.</span> <span data-start-time='12167' data-end-time='16417'>Images of red hearts are everywhere.</span> <span data-start-time='16417' data-end-time='26813'>Lovers say nice things to each other, like “I love you with all my heart” or “I love you heart and soul.”</span> <span data-start-time='26813' data-end-time='36333'>After all, many cultures view a big, beautiful, red heart as the traditional sign of love.</span> <span data-start-time='36333' data-end-time='39854'>But maybe it shouldn’t be.</span> <span data-start-time='39854' data-end-time='46667'>Maybe the symbol of love should be a big, soft, gray brain.</span> <span data-start-time='46667' data-end-time='55188'>As it turns out, love is more an activity of the brain than an affair of the heart.</span> <span data-start-time='55188' data-end-time='65729'>Over the years, research has shown that love affects the brain in many ways and in a number of areas.</span> <span data-start-time='65729' data-end-time='74167'>Psychology Today magazine’s online blog looked at some studies and noted the results.</span> <span data-start-time='74167' data-end-time='89271'>The blog explains that researchers generally use a technology called functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, to study the brain.</span> <span data-start-time='89271' data-end-time='94833'>This technology can follow movement of blood inside the brain.</span> <span data-start-time='94833' data-end-time='106750'>When a thought, substance, movement, or anything else activates a part of the brain, blood flow to that area increases.</span> <span data-start-time='106750' data-end-time='116854'>So, fMRIs can identify both the exact location in the brain and the amount of blood.</span> <span data-start-time='116854' data-end-time='129292'>The magazine reports that these love studies note something similar: that a brain on love looks a lot like a brain on drugs.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' 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