Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Discovery Mag: 'MDMA really is like love in a pill.'

Soon we'll give Valentines Day Cards with MDMA or oxytocin molecules on them.

This Is Your Brain on Ecstasy

MDMA really is like love in a pill.

by Boonsri Dickinson

Past research has attributed at least part of the “love effect” of Ecstasy to an increase in brain levels of the natural antidepressant serotonin. Australian neuropharmacologist Iain McGregor, of the University of Sydney, has another explanation. He says Ecstasy users are under the influence of a massive surge of oxytocin—the brain’s “love” hormone, normally released during nursing or orgasm—which cements pair bonds.

Discovermagazine.com/2007/Jul

They're cuddling!

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