Quote from A.D. Craig:
Many areas of the brain are involved in the experience of pain. These areas have been thought to form a distributed pain-processing ‘neuromatrix‘ centred on the portions of the cerebral cortex related to the sense of touch. However, a new view suggests that specific pain centres exist, which have evolved from a primitive system of the brain that controls the health of the body, or body physiology. The overlap between these areas and emotion-processing regions of the brain could explain the peculiarly human subjective qualities of pain.
So, emotional pain, and physicial pain goes on in roughly the same regions of the brain.
So, love really does hurt.
The Brain in pain is mainly the same.
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