Dr. Helen Fisher's TED Talk

The Science of Love, and the Future of Women
In a TED Talk, Dr. Helen Fisher discusses three brain systems. Sex drive, romantic love, and attachment to long-term partners. Dr. Fishers believes that women moving back into the workforce and closing the gap between men and women in regards to health, education, and economic power, has a great impact on these three brain systems. For millions of years women worked to provide for the family. This was mostly done in the form of gathering fruits and vegetables for family consumption. Women were regarded to be socially, economically, and sexually powerful as men. Dr. Fishers states that we are moving forward to the past.
Dr. Fisher gives examples of what makes men and women different. She describes men and women as two feet. We are different, but need each other to get ahead. Women are great communicators and have the ability to express through extended vocabulary. Women tend to be contextual thinkers and see the broad spectrum. Women are beginning to express their

Sex drive is the craving for sexual gratification. Romantic love is a drive, a wanting, or craving, however is not sexual. Attachment is a relationship of safety and security. These three brain systems can go together however, they don’t always. One can have a deep attachment to a long-term partner while feeling intense romantic love for someone else, and also feel a sexual drive to someone unrelated to the other partners. She believes we are capable of loving more than one person at a time. We can also swing from deep attachment to deep romantic love. She jokes about the possibility of swinging between all three if there is a “committee meeting” in your head. Dr. Fisher explains that mystery elevates dopamine, therefore we can fall in love with someone because of the mystery we see in them. However, most people are compelled to persons with complimentary brain