BBC News updates us on crazy love:
[From Italian researchers]
“Men, in some way, had become more like women, and women had become like men,” Donatella Marazziti of the University of Pisa told New Scientist magazine.
“It’s as if nature wants to eliminate what can be different in men and women, because it’s more important to survive at this stage,” she said.
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[From researchers at University College London]
They found that the neural circuits that are normally associated with critical social assessment of other people are suppressed when people are in love.
They said the findings may explain why some people are often “blind” to their partner’s faults.
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[Previously from the Italian researchers]
They found that people who were in love had lower levels of serotonin.
In fact, their serotonin levels were found to be the same as people with obsessive compulsive disorder.
Speaking at the time, the researchers said the finding may explain why people who are in love can sometimes obsess about their partner.