Depressive symptoms and romantic relationship qualities from adolescence through emerging adulthood: a longitudinal examination of influences.
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The neurobiological link between compassion and love.
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Love and compassion exert pleasant feelings and rewarding effects. Besides their emotional role and capacity to govern behavior, appetitive motivation, and a general 'positive state', even 'spiritual' at times, the behaviors shown in love and compassion clearly rely on neurobiological mechanisms and underlying molecular principles. These processes and pathways involve the brain's limbic motivation and reward circuits, that is, a finely tuned and profound autoregulation. This capacity to self-regulate emotions, approach behaviors and even pair bonding, as well as social contact in general, i.e., love, attachment and compassion, can be highly effective in stress reduction, survival and overall health. Yet, molecular biology is the basis of interpersonal neurobiology, however, there is no answer to the question of what comes first or is more important: It is a cybernetic capacity and complex circuit of autoregulation that is clearly 'amazing'. (+info)
Drug addiction, love, and the higher power.
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Differences and similarities on neuronal activities of people being happily and unhappily in love: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study.
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