Your Brain Is Wired for Instant Love

It triggers that electric, blissful feeling

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My colleagues and I have put dozens of men and women into a brain scanner to map the pathways associated with passion and love. The electric, blissful feeling of love runs along a specific network that can be triggered instantly, a circuitry that most likely evolved to push our ancestors to focus on specific partners and start the breeding process.

Fisher is a senior research fellow at the Kinsey Institute.

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