BS 194 Mary-Frances O'Connor, author of "The Grieving Brain"
Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone
Ginger Campbell, MD
4.8 • 896 Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
The neuroscience of grief and grieving is a relatively new field, but one that offers practical discoveries for people of all backgrounds. This month we talk with Mary-Frances O’Connor, author of The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How we Learn from Love and Loss.
We talk about what has been learned from a variety of approaches, including both brain imaging and, surprisingly even from animal studies. We learn why it is so hard for our brains to accept the loss of a loved one and this work offers hope for helping those who struggle with prolonged or complicated grief.
The incredible loss of life cause by the COVID pandemic makes this work especially timely.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to brain science, the |
| 0:05.0 | brain science, the podcasts that explores how recent discoveries in |
| 0:09.6 | neuroscience are helping unravel the mystery of how our brain makes us human. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm your host Dr. Ginger Campbell and this is episode 194. |
| 0:20.0 | Today I will be talking with Mary Francis O'Connor from the University of Arizona about her new book |
| 0:26.1 | The Grieving Rain the surprising science of how we learn from love and loss |
| 0:36.0 | Before I jump into today's interview I want to address the question that many of you may have. What does grief have to do with |
| 0:40.8 | neuroscience? The focus of this podcast is understanding how our brain makes us human, and unfortunately, grief is part of being human. |
| 0:50.0 | To be honest, before reading this book, I was unaware that there are researchers like Dr O'Connor working to understand how grieving changes our brain, not just as an academic exercise, but to help us deal with this difficult emotion in a truly meaningful manner. |
| 1:08.0 | Before I jump into the interview, I do want to remind you that you can get show notes and episode transcripts on our |
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