Keeping tabs on authors in LINKcat: Helen E. Fisher

 

Source:  South Central Library System LINKcat online catalog

New York Times, 8/30/2024

Dr. Fisher had already been studying sexual behavior for more than 20 years, but she believed that there was an undiscovered scientific basis for love, an intense, often irrational, human mating drive. 

“People have resisted thinking that romantic love actually is a brain system,” she said on the NPR program “TED Radio Hour” in 2014. “They’re scared that it will break the magic. They want romantic love to be part of the supernatural.” She added: “Why do we want to feel that it’s supernatural? ’Cause it feels so good.” 

She and two collaborators used magnetic resonance scanners to detect increases and decreases in blood flow — indications of neural activity — in the brains of 17 college students in the throes of new love. Their research confirmed for the first time that love is hard-wired in the brain.

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