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The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss with Psychologist Mary-Frances O’Connor

The Happy Pear Podcast

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Is Your Memory System Restoring After a Loved One Dies?

When someone is grieving their brain creates similar bonds, physical bonds. After you've gone through grieving and now you're just occasionally experiencing grief, have those bonds somewhat changed? Are they still there? So is it actually that you're learning to live around them or do they kind of reconfigure? I can tell you from a brain perspective, we don't have all the answers yet. It's still pretty early in our understanding the neurobiology of grief but we have some indications.

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