To the brain, getting burned, getting dumped feel the same - CNN.com
Brain networks that are activated when you're burned also light up when you think about a lover who has spurned you.(Health.com) -- Science has finally confirmed what anyone who's ever been in love already knows: Heartbreak really does hurt.In a new study using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), researchers have found that the same brain networks that are activated when you're burned by hot coffee also light up when you think about a lover who has spurned you.
In other words, the brain doesn't appear to firmly distinguish between physical pain and intense emotional pain. Heartache and painful breakups are "more than just metaphors," says Ethan Kross, Ph.D., the lead researcher and an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor.
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