{"product_id":"the-scientific-american-book-of-love-sex-and-the-brain-9780470647783","title":"The Scientific American Book of Love Sex and the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWho do we love? Who loves us? And why? Is love really a mystery, or can neuroscience offer some answers to these age-old questions?\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIn her third enthralling book about the brain, Judith Horstman takes us on a lively tour of our most important sex and love organ and the whole smorgasbord of our many kinds of love-from the bonding of parent and child to the passion of erotic love, the affectionate love of companionship, the role of animals in our lives, and the love of God.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDrawing on the latest neuroscience, she explores why and how we are born to love-how we''re hardwired to crave the companionship of others, and how very badly things can go without love. Among the findings: parental love makes our brain bigger, sex and orgasm make it healthier, social isolation makes it miserable-and although the craving for romantic love can be described as an addiction, friendship may actually be the most important loving relationship of your life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBased on recent studies an\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This basic introduction to the neuroscience of love and sex is a good starting place for readers new to the subject...one hopes it will whet readers' appetites for more nuanced explorations of this area of research.\" (\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, April 2012)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface: Who Do You Love? xiii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat Is This Thing Called Love? 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSo What Is Love? 2\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLove Is a Many Splendored Thing—and the Greeks Had a Word for All of the Types 4\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Basics of Your Brain in Love and Sex 6\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI’ve Got You Under My Skull: Love in Your Brain 7\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYou Make Me Feel So Good: The Pleasure Center 8\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Very Thought of You 9\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow Scientists Research Love and Sex in Your Brain 10\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 Born to Love: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhy People Need People 15\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDo You See What I See? How Mirror Neurons Connect Us 17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Dangers of Involuntary Mind Merging 22\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Chemistry of Love 23\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLove Is Everywhere: Where Love Grows in the Brain 26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Brain Unable to Love: Inside the Brain of a Psychopath 27\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBaby Face, You’ve Got the Cutest Little Baby Face 33\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 Learning to Love 35\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow Your Parents Affect Your Love Life 36\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLove at First Sight: The Earliest Lessons in Love 39\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIf You Could Read My Mind: Moms Do 42\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Mother’s Everlasting Love 43\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow Parenting Primes Your Brain for Love 45\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eParenting Rewires the Daddy Brain as Well 46\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow Father Love Feeds Both Brains 47\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePostpartum Depression: Misery for Mom and Baby 50\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLoving the One Who Hurts You: Why Children Cling to Abusers 51\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat If Things Went Wrong with That First Love? 52\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn the End: Do Parents Matter? 54\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 His Brain, Her Brain, Gay Brain, and Other Brains 57\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow Real Are the Differences? 58\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Five Genders of the Brain 60\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHis Brain, Her Brain: The Geography 61\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSo What Does This Have to Do with Love? 63\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOur Changeable Brains 66\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSome Myths About Male and Female Brains: True or False? 68\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eToujours Gay: The Gay Brain Is Born That Way 72\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCan Animals Be Gay? Better to Call It Bisexual 74\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI Am What I Am 76\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Third Gender: When Gender and Sex Do Not Align 79\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAre There Asexuals Among Us? On the Possibility of a Fourth Sexual Orientation 81\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 That Old Black Magic: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eYour Brain in Love 85\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow Love and Sex Are Good for Your Brain 88\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhen Love Occupies Your Brain 90\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWho Do You Love? And Who Loves Ya, Baby? 91\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYou’ve Got That Lovin’ Feelin’, But What Turns You On? 96\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYou Go to My Nose: The Power of Smell over Sex 96\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Kiss Is (More Than) Just a Kiss 102\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYou Light Up My Brain 104\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat’s Love Got to Do with It? Plenty It Turns Out—for Women 108\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNeed Some Love Potion? Try a Bit of Oxytocin Spray 109\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI’ll Have What She’s Having: What Makes a Better Female Orgasm? 110\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDoes the Penis Have a Brain of Its Own? 112\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhen Things Go Wrong: A Fine Romance 115\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 Friendship, Such a Perfect Blendship: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eOr, with a Little Help from My Friends 121\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIs Friendship Declining? 123\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAre You Lonesome Tonight? 60 Million Other Americans Are 125\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYou’ve Got a Friend—or You Should! 126\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWidening the Social Circle 129\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eImaginary Friends: TV Characters Can Ease Your Pain 130\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUntil the Real Thing Comes Along: Your Brain on Facebook 133\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWork, the “Other Love” in Your Life 135\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCan Animals Love? Yes, and More 136\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow to Make Friends 139\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 Only You Can Make My Dreams Come True: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eLet’s Get Married 143\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGrow Old Along with Me: The Marriage Benefits 144\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYou Make Me Feel So Good: Romance Lowers Stress 145\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFinding That Special Someone: Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places? 146\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFalling and Staying in Love 148\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eI’ve Grown Accustomed to Your Face 150\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMy One and Only Love: Are We Monogamous? 151\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGranny’s Got to Have It 153\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYour Hormones May Drive You Apart: A Tough Pill to Swallow 155\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaking Love Last: I Get a Kick out of You 156\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCan Pornography Help Your Love Life? 158\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLove Will Keep Us Together: Lasting Romance Is Embossed in the Brain 159\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWill You Still Need Me When I’m 64? 161\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhen Love Dies 165\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBreaking Up Is Hard to Do: How Rejection Affects Your Brain 166\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Jilted Brain 167\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfter the Love Is Gone—You Ache and Ache 169\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCan’t Live If Living Is Without You: The Widowhood Effect 171\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAchy Breaky Heart: Can You Die of a Broken Heart? 172\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAin’t No Cure for Love—But Acetaminophen Could Help 172\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEvery Time You Say Good-Bye, I Die a Little: Why It Hurts to Leave Your Lover 174\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBroken Promises: Can the Brain Predict Betrayal? 176\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCoping with a Breaking Heart 178\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8 For the Love of God 181\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSearching for God in Your Brain 182\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpilepsy, the Temporal Lobe, and God 182\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStrokes of Insight: Brain Changes and Spiritual Awakening 184\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReligious Ecstasy Is Like Romantic Love—in the Brain at Least 186\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGod on the Brain: What Brain Scans Show 188\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCould Religion Shrink Your Brain? 190\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Evolutionary Roots of God Thought 191\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGod Neurons May Be Everywhere 192\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9 Technology, Science, and the Future of Sex 195\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Wonderful World of Cybersex 196\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSex in Bits and Bytes: The Future of Virtual Sex Is Here 199\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10 How Can Love Survive? 201\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBut What of Love? 204\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlossary 207\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSources 215\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIllustration Credits 229\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbout the Author 231\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 233\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley \u0026 Sons Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402385563991,"sku":"9780470647783","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780470647783.jpg?v=1730480238","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-scientific-american-book-of-love-sex-and-the-brain-9780470647783","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}