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Drugs and Love
October 13th, 2008 by kurt-jumpman23
The fourth long exam in perception comes within 2 days. To non-psych majors, Perception or PSYCH 135 is the special course where students map out the brain pathways of the five basic sensations ( hearing,seeing, etc). In other words, we try to explain all of the things that we perceive through complex brain mechanisms.
Before my hippocampus( the brain part responsible for semantic and declarative memories) hits information overload, I just want to share and relate some facts on what I have read so that in a way, I can store some information to my amygdala ( responsible for emotional memory).
For the lay people, it is just metaphorical when poets and authors say that people fall when they are in love. As a matter of fact, people rise when they are in love ( FG, David).
People rise when they are in love, much like people rise when they are engaged in drugs.
Researchers found that the right ventral tegmental area and the right caudate nucleus in the brain ( areas that govern pleasure, motivation and reward ) of people deeply in love are stimulated.The relation with addiction is that these areas are only stimulated similarly when people are induced to addictive drugs like cocaine.
So what do you mean by rising in love? Researchers found that for both people who are in love and are addicted to drugs, the dopamine levels ( dopamine is the neurotransmitter associated with pleasure) of the said brain areas are RISING.
I bet all educated people know about the facts on drug addiction right? Drug addiction is hard to extinguish because for some reasons, like the withdrawal syndrome. Associative Learning theories taught me that an unassociated/unconditioned stimulus will trigger an unconditioned response and that an associated/conditioned stimumulus will trigger an associated/conditioned response.
The paragraph above explains that drug addiction is hard to extinguish because the drug has primarily stimulated the right ventral tegmental areas and right caudate nucleus with its other associated stimulus( i.e. needles you injected, the room where you take drugs), which will trigger the the same craving response.
Just like love. People still keep thinking of that person who have already rejected them, socially excluded them,broke up with them ( or broke them up, or broke them down, whatever you’d like to use it), cheated them, dumped-the-hell-out of them, because of the activation of the said brain areas when they see, hear, feel, smell or sense anything that reminds them of that person.
So the question is, how will one person stop the rise of dopamine levels in the right ventral tegmental area and right caudate nucleus instantly ? YOU CAN’T!. Unless you find another kind of drug to replace its effects or you extinguish by force all the associated stimuli of that drug. While you can’t do it now, enjoy the addiction when the right drug comes. hahahaha!
Makes sense, eh? Mao diay. Enough ! Magtuon nakog sekular, sheeeeeet.!
Posted in love | tagged addiction, drugs, love | |
on November 6th, 2008 at 11:53 pm
nice one dong………….
on November 7th, 2008 at 12:25 am
of course!
on December 12th, 2008 at 7:56 am
hmmm. ur rily in lov.. c;
on December 12th, 2008 at 9:17 am
i was? i am? hehe
on December 14th, 2008 at 6:29 am
nice one kurt. by the way, my mnemonics for hippocampus is when you get stepped on the head by a hippopotamus, you get amnesia.
bai, i linked you up in my site.
on December 15th, 2008 at 10:07 am
salamat kuya mel! hehe…