Love on the brain: How dopamine drives our connections and relationships

Your eyes lock across a crowded room, and there’s an instant attraction as the brain releases the feel-good neurotransmitter dopamine. The resulting warm, fuzzy sensations are not so much an emotion but an ancient drive to find a mate

Sandra Langeslag: The longer people are in love, they experience less passionate love and more companionate love.

As I prepare to ask one of the world’s foremost experts on love about the neuroscience behind matters of the heart, she is in the midst of setting up her laptop with assistance from her husband. 

Though he is off camera, I hear Dr Helen Fisher warmly acknowledge him — “Thank you, sweetie”— before sitting down.