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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Is love just a chemical cocktail?
By Pallab Ghosh
BBC News science correspondent
A rich experience, or just a bunch of chemicals?
It is said that love is a drug. But is it just a drug?
That is the contention of Larry Young, a professor of neuroscience at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.
Writing in the respected scientific journal Nature, Professor Young argues that love can be explained by a series of neurochemical events in specific brain areas.
<span style="font-weight: bold">If it is true, he says, people will no longer have to rely on oysters or chocolates to create a loving mood.</span>
Instead, <span style="font-weight: bold">it will be possible for scientists to develop aphrodisiacs - chemicals that would make people fall in love with the first person they see</span>.
<span style="font-style: italic">And for those who have fallen in love with someone they shouldn't have</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold">there could be an antidote to unrequited love. </span>
There is even the prospect of a genetic "love test" to assess whether two potential love-birds are predisposed to a happy married life.
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By Pallab Ghosh
BBC News science correspondent
A rich experience, or just a bunch of chemicals?
It is said that love is a drug. But is it just a drug?
That is the contention of Larry Young, a professor of neuroscience at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.
Writing in the respected scientific journal Nature, Professor Young argues that love can be explained by a series of neurochemical events in specific brain areas.
<span style="font-weight: bold">If it is true, he says, people will no longer have to rely on oysters or chocolates to create a loving mood.</span>
Instead, <span style="font-weight: bold">it will be possible for scientists to develop aphrodisiacs - chemicals that would make people fall in love with the first person they see</span>.
<span style="font-style: italic">And for those who have fallen in love with someone they shouldn't have</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold">there could be an antidote to unrequited love. </span>
There is even the prospect of a genetic "love test" to assess whether two potential love-birds are predisposed to a happy married life.
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