Healing from Loss: Understanding Our Deep Attachments

How the Brain Experiences Grief According to a Neuroscientist w Dr. Mary-Frances O'Connor | Medical Mindset EP4

In this episode of Medical Mindset you join me with Dr. Mary-Frances O'Connor. Mary-Frances O’Connor conducts studies to better understand the grief process both psychologically and physiologically. She is a leader in the field of complicated grief, a clinical condition in which people do not adjust to the acute feelings of grief and show increases in yearning, avoidance, and rumination. Her work primarily focuses on trying to tease out the mechanisms that cause this ongoing and severe reaction to loss. In particular, she is curious about the neurobiological, immune, and cardiovascular factors that vary between individual responses to grief.

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