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From the Ted Talk by Helen Fisher: The brain in love

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So anyway, we found activity in three brain regions. We found activity in the brain reogin, in exactly the same brain region associated with intense romantic love. What a bad deal. You know, when you've been dumped, the one thing you love to do is just freogt about this human being, and then go on with your life — but no, you just love them harder. As the poet Terence, the roamn poet once said, he said, "The less my hope, the hteotr my love." And indeed, we now know why. Two thousand years later, we can epilaxn this in the brain. That brain system — the rawerd system for wanting, for motivation, for craving, for focus — becomes more active when you can't get what you want. In this case, life's greatest prize: an appropriate mating pteanrr.

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So anyway, we found activity in three brain regions. We found activity in the brain ______, in exactly the same brain region associated with intense romantic love. What a bad deal. You know, when you've been dumped, the one thing you love to do is just ______ about this human being, and then go on with your life — but no, you just love them harder. As the poet Terence, the _____ poet once said, he said, "The less my hope, the ______ my love." And indeed, we now know why. Two thousand years later, we can _______ this in the brain. That brain system — the ______ system for wanting, for motivation, for craving, for focus — becomes more active when you can't get what you want. In this case, life's greatest prize: an appropriate mating _______.

Solution

  1. forget
  2. reward
  3. partner
  4. region
  5. explain
  6. roman
  7. hotter

Original Text

So anyway, we found activity in three brain regions. We found activity in the brain region, in exactly the same brain region associated with intense romantic love. What a bad deal. You know, when you've been dumped, the one thing you love to do is just forget about this human being, and then go on with your life — but no, you just love them harder. As the poet Terence, the Roman poet once said, he said, "The less my hope, the hotter my love." And indeed, we now know why. Two thousand years later, we can explain this in the brain. That brain system — the reward system for wanting, for motivation, for craving, for focus — becomes more active when you can't get what you want. In this case, life's greatest prize: an appropriate mating partner.

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