Barnes & NobleThe Grieving Brain- The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss by Mary-Frances O'Connor

NPR SciFri Book Club PickNext Big Idea Club's "Top 21 Psychology Books of 2022"Behavioral Scientist Notable Books of 2022A renowned grief expert and neuroscientist shares groundbreaking discoveries about what happens in our brain when we grieve, providing a new paradigm for understanding love, loss, and learning. In The Grieving Brain, neuroscientist and psychologist Mary-Frances O'Connor, PhD, gives us a fascinating new window into one of the hallmark experiences of being human. O'Connor has devoted decades to researching the effects of grief on the brain, and in this book, she makes cutting-edge neuroscience accessible through her contagious enthusiasm, and guides us through how we encode love and grief. With love, our neurons help us form attachments to others, but, with loss, our brain must come to terms with where our loved ones went, or how to imagine a future without them. The Grieving Brain addresses- Why it's so hard to understand that a loved one has died and is gone forever Why grief causes so many emotions-sadness, anger, blame, guilt, and yearning Why grieving takes so longThe distinction between grief and prolonged griefWhy we ruminate so much after we lose a loved one How we go about restoring a meaningful life while grieving Based on.