Video: This is Your Brain on Love

Recently, filmmaker Brent Hoff and The Stanford Center for Cognitive and Neurobiological Imaging hosted the 1st Annual Love Competition. Contestants from ages 10 to 75 were invited to spend “five minutes in an fMRI machine, thinking deeply about love and allowing the imaging technology to measure activity in their dopamine, serotonin and oxytocin/vasopressin pathways. 

If you think this sounds unromantic, you’ll want to reserve judgment.“

Click play to watch is (not really) surprisingly touching short film:

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