Hormonal changes when falling in love

“I love you forever (more or less)” – stability and change in adolescents’ romantic love status and associations with mood states

“…First, for those stably in love over the 8-month period (INLOVESTABLE; mean duration of relationship: 20.3 months), hypomania scores decreased. This observation is in line with findings 11,13,14 that the early stage of romantic love does fade among adolescents, 22 young adults, 13 and adults, 12,14 and we interpret the decline in hypomania scores among those adolescents stably in love as indicating a decrease in romantic love intensity. This, in turn, may reflect the transition from early-stage intense romantic love to a more companionate love.…”

“…Similarly, Leckman & Mayes 26 and Fisher et al 27,28 stressed both the behavioral and neurophysiological similarities between intense early-state romantic love and traits of obsessivecompulsive disorders. Likewise, to assess the degree of romantic love, Marazziti et al 13 suggested modifying items from the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale. Unlike in the DSM-IV, in the DSM-V, obsessive-compulsive disorders are no longer listed as an anxiety disorder, taking into account that obsessive-compulsive disorders and anxiety disorders do differ with respect to neuropsychological and neurobiological dimensions.…”

Affectionate Communication Received from Spouses Predicts Stress Hormone Levels in Healthy Adults

“…In two five-week randomized controlled trials, for instance, Floyd, Mikkelson et al (2007) demonstrated that an affectionate writing intervention significantly lowered total serum cholesterol, and current research in our lab is testing the efficacy of nonverbal affection interventions for improving immunocompetence. These efforts are useful because stress is such a pervasive public health threat; indeed, McEwan (1999) The sample size of the present study was small relative to that typically seen in interpersonal communication research; however, it was well within the norm for psychophysiological studies (e.g., Kurup & Kurup, 2003;Marazziti & Canale, 2004;van Affectionate Communication 21 Niekerk, Huppert, & Herbert, 2001), including psychophysiological studies conducted within the field of interpersonal communication (e.g., Floyd, 2006b;Tardy, Thompson, & Allen, 1989). …”

L’addiction amoureuse existe-t-elle ?

“…Les hormones du désir et de l'acte sexuel sont bien connues [10,14,36], le cocktail testostérone + lulibérine + opioïdes + ocytocine + dopamine constitue un véritable « philtre d'amour » : schématiquement, la testostérone correspond à la mise en route du désir sexuel, la lulibérine est l'hormone de l'acte sexuel, qui entraîne lors de l'orgasme la libération A c c e p t e d M a n u s c r i p t 11 L'implication des voies dopaminergiques est ainsi retrouvée dans les différents éléments caractéristiques de la passion amoureuse.…”