Grief is a learning experience

Loved ones are wired into our brain. Learning that they’re gone requires rewiring.

By Claudia Christine Wolf

Why does it hurt so much to lose someone you love? What happens in your brain as it strives to cope? Pioneering psychologist Mary-Frances O’Connor worked on one of the first neuroimaging studies of grief more than two decades ago. She and her colleagues found that a loved one’s absence means a major disruption not only to our life but also within our brain ...

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