BS 194 Mary-Frances O'Connor, author of "The Grieving Brain"
Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone
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Grief and the Immune System
A married man whose wife dies in that next three to six months, the risk of his own mortality is almost twice as high as a man who remains married. People are at higher risk for things like pneumonia and sepsus when they have recently lost a loved one. The idea that this is all interrelated is just fascinating, right? So i think it's interesting to look at both that you don't want to look at them completely disconnected. They turns out to live in the same place.
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