Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from

Curiosity.com. I'm Cody Goff. And I'm Ashley Hamer. Today you learn about what

happens in your brain after a breakup. Then you'll learn about how

wearables and AI analytics are changing medicine.

With help from the Dean of the Stanford University School of Medicine,

Dr Lloyd Minor.

Let's satisfy some curiosity.

Romantic rejection can make anybody's brain go a little haywire.

You might cry for days or obsess over their social media posts.

Sometimes people spam their exes with phone calls. or obsessed or obsessed over their social media posts.

Sometimes people spam their exes with phone calls and texts,

or even show up at their houses uninvited.

So today we're going to talk about why people do this.

It turns out the answer is because after a breakup your brain

does some really weird things. According to psychiatrists, romantic rejection happens in

two phases, protest and resignation slash despair.

The protest phase is when the really weird stuff happens.

The dumped person becomes obsessed with winning back their ex. They make dramatic sometimes embarrassing gestures

They try to get mutual friends on their side and the thing is as the evidence mounts against them, their romantic passion only intensifies.

It's what Helen Fisher, a neurologist at the Kinsie Institute, calls frustration attraction.

Fisher learned what the brain does after a breakup

when she and a group of scientists scanned the brains of 10 women and five men

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