It was really interesting to me as I was writing this book and learning about the chemicals coursing through our brains and bodies, to discover that when we think about these symptoms we associate with being in love, well, there's a real chemical basis for that.
He might seem like heaven on a stick, but it's really the chemicals coursing through your central nervous system that you have to thank for the butterflies, and the increased heart rate – feeling as though you could stay awake for days, run a marathon and then write a thesis paper on a subject you know nothing about.
What does the bottle matter provided we can be drunk?' Alfred de Musset, 1810-1857 Given those chemicals coursing through our pleasure centres, it's hardly surprising that some people - maybe all people to some extent - get hooked on the high of falling in love.
Just staring at your baby sets a whole cocktail of hormones and chemicals coursing through the amygdala.
Being hormone-free was important to me, because there are enough chemicals coursing through my veins that help me successfully keep my anxiety and depression in check.
The group that had been watching Nazi war films had continually high levels of stress chemicals coursing through their blood while the group that had been watching Mother Theresa experienced continued levels of feel good chemicals.
I mean, that's a lot of needles and a lot of chemicals coursing through a system that has known only mamma's milk, a little formula and, once, a shot of whiskey that my dad accidentally spilled on me.
Cellphone radiation is not a chemical, of course, but the rules about mutagenicity still apply (X-rays, for instance, are known to cause cancer and are detectable by Ames's test).
I created and taught a semesterlong graduate chemical information course.
