Your Brain, Romance, and Love

The Dr. Laura Podcast

Dr. Laura Schlessinger & SiriusXM

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4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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"Your Brain, Romance, and Love" - Listen to my Morning Monologue: I’m sharing my take on pressing issues, enlightening research on human behavior, answering questions I get by email, and my favorite, most instructive interactions with callers. Everything you’ll hear is designed to help you become a better spouse, parent, family member, co-worker, friend, and human being. It’s the free therapy you need! Got a dilemma? Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com - Listen to The Dr. Laura Program daily on SiriusXM Triumph 123.

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to my morning monologue.
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0:18.5	Remember, you can hear my radio program daily on Sirius XM Triumph and connect with me 24-7 at
0:26.6	Dr.ora.com.
0:28.2	I'm going to talk about your brain and romance and love.
0:34.2	Talking about your brain now.
0:36.2	You can be giving you lots of information that I think is exciting.
0:41.8	It was back in, I don't know, 2005. They did MRI images of brains while they were still alive of individuals in the throes of romantic love.
0:56.8	Does anything actually happen to the brain when you are crazed and demented about somebody?
1:04.1	Photos of people they romantically loved caused their brains to become active in regions rich with dopamine.
1:15.2	Feel good neurotransmitter brain drug, natural.
1:21.4	Okay?
1:23.0	Other areas, I'm going to just tell you, I'm not going to use words, you probably don't know,
1:31.9	okay?
1:33.1	Amygdala, hippocampus, I'm going to leave all that out and just say, structures that contribute
1:38.6	to the circuit in your brain of reward are exceptionally sensitive to and reinforcing of behavior that
1:48.6	induces pleasure such as sex, food consumption, drug use, and love.
1:59.7	Funny how they're all connected. drug use and love.
2:04.2	Funny how they're all connected,
2:07.2	which is why having a romantic dinner sort of doubles it.
2:10.5	You've got the romance and you've got the good food
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