Romanticism is a "natural addiction," it makes us both happy and unhappy.

Romanticism is a "natural addiction," it makes us both happy and unhappy. A break causes a feeling of loss and pain that affects so much that causes clinical depression and in extreme cases, even suicide or homicide. American Scientists used a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in people who had recently been abandoned by their partners. They showed pictures of the former partner and the reactions were mixed: love, despair, good and bad memories, and anguish. Meanwhile, neuronal activity was observed with fMRI. and it was found the activation of brain areas with functions related to the sensation of pleasure, happiness, addiction and fear. Neural activity was increased in the insular cortex or insula and anterior cingulate cortex, associated both with the physical pain and anguish. Data collected, together with other data collected in a previous study, suggest that the brain mesolimbic pathway would be involved in romantic passion, whether love or not makes us happy. The mesolimbic pathway is one of the dopamine pathways in the brain and is associated with the modulation of behavioral responses to stimuli in front of emotional gratification and motivation, that is, which is the brain mechanism that mediates the reward and influences by Thus in the addictions.