How grieving changes the brain, with Mary-Frances O’Connor, PhD
Speaking of Psychology
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Losing a Loved One
The brain incodes a bond when it falls in love. When we lose someone, our representation of the we has a hole in it. We can consider things like phantom limb simdrome where people who have had an arm or part of a leg amputated sometimes experience itching or pain in that absent limb. And so we're actually experiencing sensations in the brain that aren't related to peripheral nerves.
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