*By Hector Williams Zorrilla
Falling in love activates the production of a substance in the brain called phenylethylamine, which forces the secretion of dopamine, or "substance or hormone of love".
The psycho-emotional and socio-cultural experience of falling in love contains general elements, and personal and personality aspects of the people who fall in love.
But the script and direction of the crush movie originate in our brains.
The experience and behaviors of falling in love are usually combined, for a limited time, with the so-called "hormonal quartet of happiness" produced by the brain. The following hormones are components of the “happiness hormone quartet”: endorphin, serotonin, dopamine, and oxytocin.
A central feature of the brain's release of all these hormones is that they produce in the human body a sensation of orgasmic pleasure, satisfaction, bliss, contentment, and happiness.
But these pleasant hormonal states do not last forever, and sooner or later, sooner than later, the tendency of this hormonal production is to seek homeostasis and equilibrium of the psycho-emotional and biological/physiological system of the human body.
When falling in love, the production of these happiness hormones partially blocks or inhibits the frontal cortex, which is a part of the frontal lobe of the human brain. And it is in that portion of the brain where reasoning and logic thoughts are found, which give rise to the most logical and rational behavior of human beings.
And that's exactly what happens when the "hormonal quartet of happiness" of lovers begins to calm down and settle down. The frontal cortex or frontal lobe of the brain begins to prevail and control the situation of falling in love, so that the lovers begin to see "things more clearly" mentally.
*The author is a psychologist, university professor and writer
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