She blinded me with science

Romance brings to mind images of candles, rose petals, lingerie and...neurons?

The LA Times discusses attempts to scientifically measure the implications of falling in love. An excerpt:

Arthur Aron, a social psychologist at Stony Brook University in New York, has done brain scans on people newly in love and found that after that first magical meeting or perfect first date, a complex system in the brain is activated that is essentially "the same thing that happens when a person takes cocaine."

The article isn't the first of its kind.

It seems almost every week a new study combining science and romance hits the Internet.

Using multi-syllable words like "dopamine" and "vasopressin," scientists can now attempt to explain why we fall in love, why stay in love and everything in between.

Sure, the findings make for interesting headlines, but does a marriage between love and science do anything for the average dater?

Or do you prefer to regard romance solely as a matter of the heart?