Our primordial drive for sex and love, Helen Fisher
Your brain on sex, love, and rejection with biological anthropologist Helen Fisher. Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube Up next, The science of sex, love, attraction, and obsession What happens in the brain of someone who gets dumped One answer is increased activity in the nucleus accumbens, which is the same brain region that becomes active when you become addicted to cocaine, cigarettes, or gambling. Romantic love, in other words, is an addiction. Thats one key takeaway from the research of anthropologist Hellen Fisher, who argues that we should learn to respect the intense feelings of people who get romantically rejected. According to Fisher, a better understanding of how the brain processes love and romantic desire can help us find the right partner and sustain a meaningful, healthy relationship. 0:00 Charles Darwins game of love 0:58 Sexual a
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