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	Mohrbooks Literary Agency Maren Wiederhold
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Psychology

EL CEREBRO

Miguel Pita

Falling in love is a trait unique to the human species. Our abilities to project the future, communicate through language, and produce abstract and complex thoughts combine with more primitive mechanisms and expose us to love at first sight.

Written with scientific rigor and a wonderfully engaging tone, The Brain in Love explores one of the most universal and least understood human experiences: falling in love. This is not a self-help book, it is a fascinating journey through the biology, neuroscience, and genetics behind love, desire, bonding, sex, monogamy, heartbreak, and recovery.
The author guides us through a process we all recognize: meeting someone, falling in love, building a relationship, and eventually breaking up. Along the way, he reveals how our most sophisticated cognitive abilities coexist with deeply primitive mechanisms turning love into one of the most powerful and irrational forces the human brain can experience.

For lovers of Cat Bohannon, Randall Munroe, Daniel Kahneman, or NYT bestelling Christopher Ryan, this essay sheds a light on one of the most fascinating and unique human phenomenons: why we love the way we do and why love can feel so intoxicating.

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Book Published 2025-10-01 by Editorial Periferica

Comments

An engaging essay that is the polar opposite of self-help. No, this is about science, it's not a manual for love or heartbreak. But it explains a lot about what we have all experienced at some point.

Miguel Pita is one of the people who perhaps best understands what drives us to fall madly in love with someone to the point of wanting to spend the rest of our lives with them... or not.

Just as we try to understand the origin of the universe and human evolution, understanding the origin of the most everyday phenomena seems fascinating to me.