{"id":181067,"date":"2024-01-22T02:23:14","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T08:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/unlocking-the-secrets-of-love-neuroscientists-have-identified-the-chemical-imprint-of-desire"},"modified":"2024-01-22T02:23:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T08:23:14","slug":"unlocking-the-secrets-of-love-neuroscientists-have-identified-the-chemical-imprint-of-desire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/unlocking-the-secrets-of-love-neuroscientists-have-identified-the-chemical-imprint-of-desire","title":{"rendered":"Unlocking the Secrets of Love \u2014 Neuroscientists Have Identified the \u201cChemical Imprint of Desire\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/unlocking-the-secrets-of-love-neuroscientists-have-identified-the-chemical-imprint-of-desire3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When you get in the car to see your significant other for dinner, your brain\u2019s reward center is likely flooded with dopamine, a hormone also associated with cravings for sugar, nicotine, and cocaine. This rush of dopamine motivates you to navigate through traffic to maintain that special connection. However, if the dinner is with just a work colleague, this intense flood of dopamine may be reduced to a mere trickle, according to recent research conducted by neuroscientists at the <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/university-of-colorado-at-boulder\/\">University of Colorado Boulder<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we have found, essentially, is a biological signature of desire that helps us explain why we want to be with some people more than other people,\u201d said senior author Zoe Donaldson, associate professor of behavioral neuroscience at CU Boulder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you get in the car to see your significant other for dinner, your brain\u2019s reward center is likely flooded with dopamine, a hormone also associated with cravings for sugar, nicotine, and cocaine. This rush of dopamine motivates you to navigate through traffic to maintain that special connection. However, if the dinner is with just [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-chemistry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}