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Watching New Love as It Sears the Brain
NY Times ^ | May 31, 2005 | BENEDICT CAREY

Posted on 05/30/2005 6:28:18 PM PDT by neverdem

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Susan Farley, top; Michael Falco for The New York Times
Dr. Lucy Brown, above, and Dr. Helen Fisher, left, analyzed 2,500 brain images from 17 college students in the throes of new love - a drive, Dr. Fisher said, that "can be stronger than the will to live."

American Psychological Society
A new study suggests that an area of the brain known as the caudate is associated with passion.

1 posted on 05/30/2005 6:28:21 PM PDT by neverdem
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To: neverdem
That's what happened to all the dems that love hillary....
2 posted on 05/30/2005 6:31:22 PM PDT by b4its2late (It's frustrating when you know all the answers, but nobody bothers to ask you the questions.)
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To: El Gato; JudyB1938; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Robert A. Cook, PE; lepton; LadyDoc; jb6; tiamat; PGalt; ..

FReepmail me if you want on or off my health and science ping list.


3 posted on 05/30/2005 6:32:35 PM PDT by neverdem (May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
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To: b4its2late; neverdem

Lovers: wine and roses
Clintons: swine and ruses.


4 posted on 05/30/2005 6:34:12 PM PDT by The Spirit Of Allegiance (SAVE THE BRAINFOREST! Boycott the RED Dead Tree Media & NUKE the DNC Class Action Temper Tantrum!)
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To: neverdem

So, that explains everything! I was insane when I fell in love with a liberal and dated him for 3 years. ;-)


5 posted on 05/30/2005 6:38:11 PM PDT by Nataku X (I want to be a great masochist so I can learn to be a great sadist someday!)
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To: neverdem; cyborg; nuconvert
Love is very interesting. And yes, it does seem akin to madness ....in fact it seems exactly like madness. A rabid giggling raving singing soaring euphoric ecstasy of madness. And I love it.

(Now, let me go watch Moulon Rouge for the umpteenth time ...erm, cough cough.... I mean let me go watch illegal no-holds barred Vietnamese dirt-pit fighting LOL).

6 posted on 05/30/2005 6:39:06 PM PDT by spetznaz (Nuclear tipped ICBMs: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol.)
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To: neverdem
Romeo, oh Romeo!

Whereforth art thy brainscans?

7 posted on 05/30/2005 6:39:54 PM PDT by xJones
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To: spetznaz
(Now, let me go watch Moulon Rouge for the umpteenth time ...erm, cough cough.... I mean let me go watch illegal no-holds barred Vietnamese dirt-pit fighting LOL).

I'm glad you clarified that...we might have had to toss you out of the FR He-Man Guild had you let the original assertion stand. ;)

8 posted on 05/30/2005 6:42:44 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ("Violence never settles anything." Genghis Khan, 1162-1227)
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To: Blurblogger

(laughing)


9 posted on 05/30/2005 6:46:46 PM PDT by snarks_when_bored
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To: cyborg

It burns...it burns!



:OP


10 posted on 05/30/2005 6:47:32 PM PDT by Petronski (A champion of dance, my moves will put you in a trance, and I never leave the disco alone.)
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To: snarks_when_bored

When they say "first-love", are they talking about infatuation or lust?


11 posted on 05/30/2005 6:49:46 PM PDT by DeweyCA
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To: Mr. Jeeves

lol


12 posted on 05/30/2005 6:50:47 PM PDT by spetznaz (Nuclear tipped ICBMs: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol.)
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To: b4its2late

You had to ruin this, didn't you?


13 posted on 05/30/2005 6:51:49 PM PDT by Tall_Texan (If you can think 180-degrees apart from reality, you might be a Democrat.)
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To: Tall_Texan
I guess.....
14 posted on 05/30/2005 6:59:23 PM PDT by b4its2late (It's frustrating when you know all the answers, but nobody bothers to ask you the questions.)
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To: Tall_Texan
But I made up for it here....
15 posted on 05/30/2005 7:00:30 PM PDT by b4its2late (It's frustrating when you know all the answers, but nobody bothers to ask you the questions.)
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To: spetznaz

Wow I actually like that movie. It grows on you like a cute fungus. Awwwww you have a crush on Nicole Kidman? She looks good in Bewitched.


16 posted on 05/30/2005 7:10:56 PM PDT by cyborg (I am ageless through the power of the Lord God.)
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To: neverdem

Unbeknowst to me I was dating a married man. When I found out, we parted ways but I was really crushhed to find out it was all a lie. I had a really bad facial acne condition for two years and since I've found someone who really does love me and isn't a pathological liar, it's disappeared. Glad I didn't spend the $1000 a doctor was going to charge me to clean up my face.


17 posted on 05/30/2005 7:13:00 PM PDT by cyborg (I am ageless through the power of the Lord God.)
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To: Petronski

Put some ice on that :-)


18 posted on 05/30/2005 7:13:19 PM PDT by cyborg (I am ageless through the power of the Lord God.)
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To: cyborg

He must be a really great guy!


19 posted on 05/30/2005 7:18:13 PM PDT by Petronski (A champion of dance, my moves will put you in a trance, and I never leave the disco alone.)
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To: neverdem
New love can look for all the world like mental illness.....

All the world loves a lover mental illness?
Hmmm......

20 posted on 05/30/2005 7:20:01 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (This Tagline for sale. (Presented by TagLines R US))
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