Your Brain in Love: Part 2 – Love and Marriage

Ed. note: This week, in the run-up to Valentine’s Day, we’re featuring a 5-part series about the neuroscience of love and romance. At the end, we’ll put the full series on our website. Enjoy! Unlike Helen Fisher, Ted Huston is more interested in studying what happens throughout long-term relationships. One interesting finding over a lifetime [...]

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Posted February 8, 2011 by Karen Merzenich under Neuroscience, Research studies

Your Brain in Love: Part 1 – When Love is a Many-Splendored Thing

Ed. note: This week, in the run-up to Valentine’s Day, we’re featuring a 5-part series about the neuroscience of love and romance. At the end, we’ll put the full series on our website. Enjoy! Ever fallen madly in love? Researcher Helen Fisher has spent her academic life trying to figure out what’s going on in [...]

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Posted February 7, 2011 by Karen Merzenich under Neuroscience, Research studies

Daily TED Talk – Helen Fisher on the Brain and Love

All week I’ve been posting a favorite brain-related TED video each day. This is the last TED talk I’ll post for now- I sincerely hope you’ve enjoyed them and learned from watching them. We’ll be sure to check the videos for TED 2010, which just concluded, and post any interesting neuroscience-related ones we find. Since [...]

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Posted February 14, 2010 by Karen Merzenich under Neuroscience, Odds and Ends