Mika+Love+Summary

I'm not exactly sure why I picked this Journal Entry except for the fact that it seemed like I did a good job writing it. Many things that I read for this Journal are true, and can be seen every day.

Watching New Love as It Sears the Brain New love is in many ways like a mental illness where as it can cause constant phone calling, tearing apart of friendships, and it can break people away from their family. Scientists have finally been able to come up with brain scan images of this chaotic activity. Romantic love is closer to neurological activities that drive hunger, thirst or drug craving, than to emotions such as excitement or affection. The research done by the scientists explains why love can cause such emotions that range from anger to anxiety, and why when love is absent these activities become more intense. Dr. Helen Fisher, an anthropologist at Rutgers University stated “When you’re in the throes of this romantic love it’s overwhelming, you’re out of control, you’re irrational, you’re going to the gym at 6 a.m. every day – why? Because she’s there.” In a new study researchers saw differences in people who had just begun new love and those who have been in a steady relationship for a year or more. Love is a crazy feeling that can cause people to act in ways that would normally not occur if not in love.