# The brain in love

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED2008
- Speaker: Helen Fisher
- Year: 2008
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Psychology and the brain, Literature and writing
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/helen_fisher_the_brain_in_love)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Why do we crave love so much, even to the point that we would die for it? To learn more about our very real, very physical need for romantic love, Helen Fisher and her research team took MRIs of people in love -- and people who had just been dumped.

## Lectures

1. [The brain in love](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/helen_fisher_the_brain_in_love/b2ba570acf2c), 16 min (TED's player)