Helen Fisher went on to publicise her research in a series of TED talks, watched by more than 21 million viewers, and in 2005 the dating site Match.com appointed her its chief science adviser.

Women in their 60s are rejoining a dating scene they don’t recognize, but they are anchored by a mature perspective ...

Helen Fisher, who has died of cancer aged 79, was a biological anthropologist who researched the chemical nature of human love in all its shapes and forms, by scanning the brains of people in love ...

The course of love never did run smooth. In the words of an Alaskan Native whom Helen Fisher liked to quote, it was also a pain as terrible “as a boil about to burst”. She experienced the pain ...

Helen Fisher, who has died of cancer aged 79, was a biological anthropologist who researched the chemical nature of human love in all its shapes and forms, by scanning the brains of people in love, ...

To investigate her hypothesis, Helen Fisher and her colleagues scanned the brains of 17 college students, men and women, who claimed to be newly and madly in love. When she showed them photographs ...

Noted anthropologist Dr Helen Fisher, who lead groundbreaking research into how the brain deals with love and passion, has died at the age of 79 after suffering endometrial cancer. Across a career ...