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Marriage's Effects On The Brain: What Your Cerebrum Looks Like 20 Years After 'I Do'

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First Posted: 01/11/11 12:20 PM ET Updated: 11/17/11 09:02 AM ET

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Marriage Brain Effects

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Contrary to popular opinion, people who say they are still madly in love with their spouses after more than two decades are not crazy. At least, some of them aren't. And in answer to your next question, apparently they're not lying either. This is the proposition of a new study  published in the December issue of Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience that took brain scans of long-married people who claimed to still be besotted with their marital partner.

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Contrary to popular opinion, people who say they are still madly in love with their spouses after more than two decades are not crazy. At least, some of them aren't. And in answer to your next questio...
Contrary to popular opinion, people who say they are still madly in love with their spouses after more than two decades are not crazy. At least, some of them aren't. And in answer to your next questio...
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WoodsideCraig
Author of the blog "The Weiler Psi"
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11:21 AM on 01/16/2011
In men who have been married for 20 years or more, the area responsible for "yes dear" has been greatly expanded.
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skink007
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02:49 PM on 01/15/2011
I admit I didn't read the article, because I think I know the answer. It would be like that old drug awareness commercial where theres an egg burning in a pan, only they say: "This is your brain on marriage" :D
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Militant Leftist
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11:44 PM on 01/14/2011
What your brain looks like after 20 years of marriage? I was expecting something along the lines of the blackened smokers lung, after 20 years of 2 packs a day.
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traceymarie
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12:41 AM on 01/14/2011
26 years of heart thumping love.
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KLMwrites
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04:37 PM on 01/12/2011
If this is my brain on love, I'll gladly sign up for another 20! Really, this has been an awesome ride!
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TexasTreader
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10:10 AM on 01/12/2011
15 years and going strong. Of course, I married the best girl out there so the rest of you will have to just make out the best you can.
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12:29 PM on 01/12/2011
Cu Hold!
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Militant Leftist
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11:48 PM on 01/14/2011
Congratulations! It's nice to be reminded of nuptial success.
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WoodsideCraig
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09:28 AM on 01/12/2011
I'm one of those guys still madly in love with his wife after all 20+ years. It takes commitment.
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KDMac
It's called sarcasm, Genius.
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09:53 AM on 01/12/2011
Awww.....!
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bikerdude
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12:01 AM on 01/12/2011
Probably ministrone soup....I just read the term companionate love....That sounds more like "oh well"....I prerer to think that its more the fading of the "tingly" attachment...The love stays the same.
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Box500
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03:16 PM on 01/11/2011
The brain looks similar to someone who has been in solitary confinement for 20 years?
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