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Selected Academic

Reward, Addiction, and Emotion Regulation Systems Associated With Rejection in Love
Helen E. Fisher, Lucy L. Brown, Arthur Aron, Greg Strong, and Debra Mashek (May 2010)
Journal of Neurophysiology 104: 51-60, 2010

Neural correlates of long-term pair-bonding in a sample of intensely in-love humans.
Aceveda, B, A Aron, H Fisher and LL Brown (November 2008)
Poster Session#297, Society for Neuroscience, annual meeting

Lust, Romance, Attraction, Attachment: Do the side-effects of serotonin-enhancing antidepressants jeopardize romantic love, marriage and fertility?
Fisher, H and JA Thomson Jr. (2007)
Evolutionary Cognitive Neuroscience. SM Platek, JP Keenan and TK Shakelford (Eds.). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Pp. 245-283.

Romantic Love: A Mammalian Brain System for Mate Choice.
Fisher, H, A Aron and LL Brown (2006)
“The Neurobiology of Social Recognition, Attraction and Bonding," Keith Kendrick (Ed), Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences. 361:2173-2186

The Drive to Love: The neural mechanism for mate choice.
Fisher, H (2006)
The New Psychology of Love, 2nd Edition. RJ Sternberg and K Weis (Eds.) New Haven: Yale University Press

Lost Love: The Nature of romantic rejection
Fisher, H (2006)
Cut Loose: (mostly) midlife and older women on the end of (mostly) long-term relaionships. Nan Bauer-Maglin (Ed.) New Jersey: Rutgers University Press.

Broken Hearts: The Nature and Risks of Romantic Rejection.
Fisher, H (2006)
Romance and Sex in Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood: Risks and Opportunities. A Booth and C Crouter (Eds). New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates

Romantic Love: An fMRI study of a neural mechanism for mate choice.
H. Fisher, A Aron and LL Brown (2005)
Journal of Comparative Neurology, 493:58-62.

Some Thoughts on the Neurobiology of Stalking.
J Reid Meloy and H Fisher (2005)
Journal of Forensic Sciences, 50#6:1472-1480

Motivation and emotion systems associated with romantic love following rejection: an fMRI study.
Fisher,H, A Aron, G Strong, DJ Mashek, H Li, LL Brown (2005)
Program No. 660.7. 2005 Abstract Viewer/Itinerary Planner. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience

Reward, Motivation and Emotion Systems Associated with Early-Stage Intense Romantic Love:an fMRI study.
A Aron, H Fisher, DJ Mashek, G Strong, HF Li, and LL Brown (2005)
Journal of Neurophysiology 94:327-337

The Natural Leadership Talents of Women.
Fisher, H (2005)
Enlightened Power: How Women Are Transforming the Practice of Leadership. L Coughlin, E Wingard and K Hollihan (Eds). San Francisco, CA: Jossey Bass.

The Neural Mechanisms of Mate Choice: A Hypothesis.
Fisher, H, A Aron, D Mashek, G Strong, H Li and LL Brown (2002)
Neuroendocrinology Letters. 23 (suppl. 4):92-97

Defining the Brain Systems of Lust, Romantic Attraction and Attachment.
Fisher, H, A Aron, D Mashek, G Strong, H Li and L L Brown (2002)
Archives of Sexual Behavior, October 31# 5: 413-9.

The Sex Slave Trade: Biological Imperatives, Cultural Trends and the Coming Empowerment of Women.
Fisher, H (2002)
Hastings Women's Law Journal, Hastings College of the Law, University of California, 13#1:21-29.

Lust, Attraction, and Attachment in Mammalian Reproduction.
Fisher, H (1998)
Human Nature 9#1:23-52.

The Nature of Romantic Love
Fisher, HE (1994)
The Journal of NIH Research 6#4:59-64. Reprinted in Annual Editions: Physical Anthropology, Spring 1995

 

Selected Magazines/Newspapers

When to Trust Your Gut
By Helen Fisher, PhD
O, The Oprah Magazine, June 23, 2010

Real Aphrodisiacs to Boost Desire
By Helen Fisher, PhD
O, The Oprah Magazine, January 2010

The Realities of Love at First Sight
By Helen Fisher, PhD
O, The Oprah Magazine, November 2009

Intimacy: His & Hers
By Helen Fisher, PhD
O, The Oprah Magazine, October 2009

Jealousy — The Monster
By Helen Fisher, PhD
O, The Oprah Magazine, Septeber 2009

Brain info linked to love that lasts
By Heather Warlick
NewsOK, January 29, 2009

The Laws of Attraction
By Joseph Hooper
ELLE Magazine, January 13, 2009

“Prozac and Sexual Desire” Letter to the Editor
HE Fisher and J Anderson Thomson
New York Review of Books, March 20, 2008

Of Lost Love and Old Bones
By Helen Fisher
The Chronicle of Higher Education, Section B, The Academic Life. June 2008

What's Your Love Type?
By Helen Fisher, PhD
O, The Oprah Magazine, June 2007

What is Love?
Fisher, H (2004)
On Air, BBC International Magazine 98:12-15

Dumped! The Nature of Romantic Rejection
Fisher, H (2004)
New Scientist, 181#2434:41