Wired For Love

From the world's foremost neuroscientist of romantic love comes the untold story of what happens in our brains when we are in love.

Until the age of thirty-five, Stephanie Cacioppo was single: content to study social neuroscience, with a focus on the workings of romantic love, from an academic remove. And then, with a chance meeting Nora Ephron couldn't script, she fell for the foremost neuroscientist of loneliness. They married in Paris on a whim, and it stuck. But their unexpected connection later turned to sudden heartbreak, further fuelling her work in this field.

Wired for Love is a groundbreaking work of popular neuroscience - the sum of Cacioppo's revelatory insights into how we fall in love, and why; is there such a thing as 'the one'; what makes love last; and how we process love lost, or never found? All grounded in cutting-edge findings in brain chemistry and behavioural science. Woven through it all is her moving personal story, from astonishment, to unbreakable bond, to grief and healing. With compassion and, yes, love, she offers the work of her life to help us get along with our own.

You will learn the scientific differences between love and lust; how love can make you smarter; why people often struggle to find and sustain love; and how our hardware (the physiology of the brain) clashes with our software (cognition and emotion). To achieve a long-lasting, deeply satisfying connection, we must learn how to synchronise the two.