Falling in love has a sobering effect on the mind, international researchers have found, following a study of lab rats.
Scientists injected the intoxicated rodents with oxytocin, a hormone that is known to induce feelings of love and intimacy.
Those injected with the drug and given alcohol seemed able to overcome the failures in motor co-ordination that rats only given alochol suffered.
A lab video posted online showed an inebriated rat stumbling to the corner of its cage and staying there, while on either side, a rat that was not given alcohol ran around.
The test rat that was given alcohol and oxytocin darted around its enclosure with similar speed and energy as that of the sober one.
“In the rat equivalent of a sobriety