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! Does all this romantic mumbo-jumbo make you feel a little queasy? I have good news: a recent study showed that listening [...]
Tags: brain, dopamine, junk food, love, MRI, music
Posted February 11, 2011 by Karen Merzenich under Neuroscience, Research studies
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! You may have heard of oxytocin, sometimes called the “love hormone.” Human and animal studies have shown that oxytocin plays a [...]
Tags: autism, bonding, love, love hormone, oxytocin, romance
Posted February 10, 2011 by Karen Merzenich under Neuroscience, Research studies
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! Lots of relationship experts suggest that couples who have been together through the ages can keep the romance alive with regular [...]
Tags: date night, dopamine, long term love, love, marriage, norepinephrine
Posted February 9, 2011 by Karen Merzenich under Neuroscience, Research studies
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 [...]
Tags: brain, Helen Fisher, love, marriage, romance, ted huston
Posted February 8, 2011 by Karen Merzenich under Neuroscience, Research studies
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 [...]
Tags: brain, caudate nucleus, dopamine, Helen Fisher, love, neuroscience of love, romance
Posted February 7, 2011 by Karen Merzenich under Neuroscience, Research studies
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 [...]
Tags: Helen Fisher, love, MRI, TED
Posted February 14, 2010 by Karen Merzenich under Neuroscience, Odds and Ends
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