The Science Of Romance

Head off this idea that being fall in love is as much a biological happening as it is a behavioral happening, can we also explain "falling out of love" as in biological concepts as well? For some falling in love is a biological/chemical process within the brain and involves having just the right sum of receptors for adequate transduction by this biological/chemical process. Do we then use this same representation to talk about people falling out of love?

One professor says that falling out of love is a result of the parties involved becoming fed up with the relationship, that the parties involved found each other and trapped with each other because each one found something unique and novel about the other person and after some time, the novelty goes away, tediousness arises, and falling out of love becomes predictable.

Even though this explanation makes much sense to me, I still wondered what the changeable degrees of brain activity over this course of time would tell us about a biological reasoning for falling out of love.

Also I found out that it is extremely interesting to talk about the different sections of the brain that were both activated and deactivated when one sees his/her loved one. Most fascinatingly to me, both the amygdala and the pre-frontal cortex region are deactivated. The amygdala is the sub-cortical region of the brain that controlling our sense of fear and possibly sadness as well.

This does make sense; when I glimpse someone that I am in love with, I never approach him with fear. On the other hand, the pre-frontal cortex controls a lot of our planning, decision-making, and basic overall rational thinking. Unfortunately this was deactivated!

Speaking with this, have there been many court cases in the past, or current, that have used this biological model as a means for a defendant beseeching not guilty by reason of madness in a murder trial? I wonder.