Five ways love affect the brain

  The study found that ,among devoutly religious people spiritual feelings activate the same areas of the brain as other rewarding and pleasurable experiences,like love ,sex and drugs.. " We are just beginning to understand how the brain participates in experience that believers interpret as spiritual,divine OE transcendent, study co-author Dr.Jeff Anderson,a Nero radiologist at the university of Utah school of medicine, said in a statement.
    In the study ,the researchers analyzed the brains of 19 devourt Mormons in their 20s and 30s who had completed 1.5 to two years of missionary service for the Mormon church....
   The participants spent an hour in brain scanner,and were shown quotes and videos meant to evoke spiritual feelings.Spiritual feelings were also linked with activation of a religion called the medial prefrontal cortex, which is thought to be involved in judgment and moral reasoning,as well as activation of brain regions linked with increased attention and alertnes..