Scientific tend to view sex and love as a mammalian instinct. Dr.Helen Fisher divides love experience into three partly-overlapping stage: lust, attraction, and attachment.
Lust is the initial passionate sexual desire that promotes mating. It stimulate the release of hormones such as testosterone and oestrogen. The effect is only last for weeks or months.
Attraction is romantic love stage. People at this stage will constantly release chemical, including dopamine, phenylethylamine (PEA), norepinephrine and serotonin. The effect of this chemicals flowing in bloodstream is similar to stress: increased heart reat, sweaty palms, heavy breathing and etc.
Unlike lust and attraction stage, attachment stagement stage is accounted for long term relationship. Evidence suggested that monogamy and trust are related with oxytocin and vasopressin. This is the stage where mature love is.
References:
Love. Life Chemistry. Retrieved June 29, 2008, from http://www.life-chemistry.blogspot.com/
The Three Stages of Love. BBC. Retrieved June 26, 2008, from http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/hottopics/love/
The Right Chemistry. TIME. Retrieved June 26, 2008, from http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,977754,00.html
Scientific tend to view sex and love as a mammalian instinct. Dr.Helen Fisher divides love experience into three partly-overlapping stage: lust, attraction, and attachment.
Lust is the initial passionate sexual desire that promotes mating. It stimulate the release of hormones such as testosterone and oestrogen. The effect is only last for weeks or months.
Attraction is romantic love stage. People at this stage will constantly release chemical, including dopamine, phenylethylamine (PEA), norepinephrine and serotonin. The effect of this chemicals flowing in bloodstream is similar to stress: increased heart reat, sweaty palms, heavy breathing and etc.
Unlike lust and attraction stage, attachment stagement stage is accounted for long term relationship. Evidence suggested that monogamy and trust are related with oxytocin and vasopressin. This is the stage where mature love is.
Reference:
Love. Life Chemistry. Retrieved June 30, 2008, from http://life-chemistry.blogspot.com/2008/06/love.html
Since no one has answered this in quite some time, I'll go for it. Love is a complex emotion, and as far as the chemistry of the brain is concerned, it is also very complex. However, certain chemicals are known to be involved in pleasure and reward with in the brain. So, I would direct your future research into the area of dopamine, norepinephrine and serotonin. Especially dopamine has been implicated in the pleasure centers within the brain.
Love is biochemically determined. Read this book:
Helen Fischer
Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love
Pages : 320 pages
Publisher : Holt
Paperbacks 2005-01-02
Language : English
ISBN-10 : 0805077960
ISBN-13 : 9780805077964
The emotions and the physical acts all have biochemical pathways associated
No such equation exists, nor is it likely to.
Love is a biochemical process.
Read this book: Helen Fischer - Why we love: The nature and Chemistry of romantic Love
Published by Henry Holt, 2004
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We see the chemical reaction but we write the chemical equation.
A chemical reaction is represented by a chemical equation.
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A balanced chemical equation has correct placed coefficients and a representative chemical equation need these coefficients.
A chemical equation is the representation of a chemical reaction.
A chemical equation is the graphic expression of a chemical reaction.
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A chemical equation is the graphic form of the reaction.