The Science of Love, with Dr. Helen Fisher
We all want to have a good stable relationship with somebody, says Dr. Helen Fisher. So it's important to understand how intense romantic love affects our ...
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We all want to have a good stable relationship with somebody and one of the problems with early stage intense feelings of romantic love is that it’s part of the oldest parts of the brain that become activated. Brain regions linked with drive, with craving, with obsession, with motivation. And in fact some cognitive regions up I the prefrontal cortex that have evolved much more recently begin to shut down. Brain regions linked with decision making, planning ahead, you know, people who are madly in love can fall madly in love with somebody who’s married who lives on the other side of the planet, who comes from a different religion and somehow they’ll say to themselves we’ll work it out. We can work this out because of all that energy of intense romantic love and also the shutting down o...
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We all want to have a good stable relationship with somebody and one of the problems with early stage intense feelings of romantic love is that it’s part of the oldest parts of the brain that become activated. Brain regions linked with drive, with craving, with obsession, with motivation. And in fact some cognitive regions up I the prefrontal cortex that have evolved much more recently begin to shut down. Brain regions linked with decision making, planning ahead, you know, people who are madly in love can fall madly in love with somebody who’s married who lives on the other side of the planet, who comes from a different religion and somehow they’ll say to themselves we’ll work it out. We can work this out because of all that energy of intense romantic love and also the shutting down o...
