Is love an addiction? | Helen Fisher | Big Think

January 14, 2020
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Is love an addiction? | Helen Fisher | Big Think

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Studies have shown that romantic love, while often positive, activates basic brain regions that are also triggered by cocaine addiction.

Stalking, clinical depression, and even suicides have been attributed to love addictions.

For better or worse, everybody at some time in their life has been or will be addicted to love.

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HELEN FISHER

Helen E. Fisher, Ph.D. biological anthropologist, is a Senior Research Fellow at The Kinsey Institute at Indiana University, and a Member of the Center For Human Evolutionary Studies in the Department of Anthropology at Rutgers University. She has written six books on the evolution, biol...

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