Science Cafe: Love … it's not what you think it is

Love may not be what you think it is — which is probably just as well. New developments in neuroscience have given us a much better idea of what love is and how it works. Is any of the science relevant to your life?  It's interesting that the most important decision of one’s life — whom to spend the rest of it with — is usually made by young people, who are the least equipped to make it.  Mistakes in love and marriage are more common than we would like to think, especially at this season of the year.   Can science and erudition guide our decisions better than intuition and dumb luck?

About the Speaker

Dr. Thomas Gualtieri is the medical director of the North Carolina Neuropsychiatry Clinics and author of several books and more than 100 scientific articles. He graduated from Columbia in 1969 and was trained in psychiatry and child psychiatry at the University of North Carolina. He was on the faculty at UNC for eleven years, where his research interests were in psychopharmacology and neuropsychiatry.  Dr. Gualtieri is a pioneer in the field of computerized neurocognitive testing development and implementation. Among his recent books are Brain Injury and Mental Retardation: Neuropsychiatry and Psychopharmacology and Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Pharmacology. Currently, Dr. Gualtieri is writing Mild Cognitive Disorders and Your ex-husband is in this book.