Romantic Love Is an Addiction  Addicted to Love? Getting Over an
Ex Is Like Withdrawal  If you've ever felt like you're going
through withdrawal after a breakup, it's because you are. A new
study in the July issue of the Journal of Neurophysiology says
getting over a breakup is akin to kicking an addiction.
Researchers asked jilted men and women to look at pictures of
their heartbreakers, and immediately parts of the brain
associated with emotional control, motivation and reward,
cravings, attachment, and physical pain lit up.  Like most
research findings, there's an evolutionary explanation. Brains
evolved to heave all our romantic hopes onto one person for
mating purposes, so losing that person is like losing life's
grand prize: a mating partner. The results are considered
insight into why the heartbroken are driven to crimes of passion
like stalking and homicide. The good news? Now there's a
scientific rationale for why we stalk exes on the Internet.
While it may be the first study to examine the brain o