From BoingBoing: Psychiatrists from Pavia University have associated early romantic love with a biochemical known as nerve growth factor (NGF).
Apparently, levels of NGF in the bloodstream were significantly higher in subjects who were in the early stages of romance than individuals not in a relationship. Interestingly, “subjects in love who—after 12–24 months—maintained the same relationship but were no longer in the same mental state to which they had referred during the initial evaluation” did not have elevated NGF levels.
Dating circa 2012: Personality tests are passe. Swabbing partners CSI-style on first dates is where it’s at. Biochemicallove.com is available, have at it.
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You can also see the quite interesting paper “THE NEURAL MECHANISMS OF MATE CHOICE: A Hypothesis”, written by Helen Fisher et al (which it seems to be one of the papers that substantiates the matching method at Chemistry.com)
(can be seen at
http://homepage.mac.com/helenfisher/matechoice.html
http://homepage.mac.com/helenfisher/News.htm
)
and the poster “EARLY STAGE INTENSE ROMANTIC LOVE ACTIVATES CORTICAL-BASAL-GANGLIA REWARD/MOTIVATION, EMOTION AND ATTENTION SYSTEMS: AN fMRI STUDY OF A DYNAMIC NETWORK THAT VARIES WITH RELATIONSHIP LENGTH, PASSION INTENSITY AND GENDER. (2003)
”
http://homepage.mac.com/helenfisher/images/Poster.jpg
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