Did you ever wonder if someone truly loved you, or if they were faking it? Love has been an emotion difficult to prove even though poets and lovers down the years have spent millennia trying to do so. Enter modern technology and now you really may have a way to prove that you are in love.

Apparently the cocktail of chemicals that are present in your brain can tell researchers just how love affects you when studied under an MRI scanner. At the University of Science and Technology of China Professor Xiaochu Zhang has conducted a study which claims to be the first provider of evidence of love related alterations in the under lying architecture of the brain.

The results of this scientific study have shed fresh light on the mechanism of romantic love. All emotions can be seen affecting the brain. The subjects were shown images of their partners while hooked up to scanners to test for changes in the brain brought out by romantic love. The changes in brain activity, blood flow and other parameters were earmarked to study the difference in romantic feelings and not so romantic feelings of individuals towards the images shown.