The Neuroscience of Being Human
The Neuroscience of Continuing Bonds
Why maintaining a relationship with the dead is not pathological, how the brain adapts attachment without severing it, and what healthy ongoing connection looks like
1,326-word article with 7 Harvard references.
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For decades, the dominant model of grief insisted that the goal was letting go. Contemporary research, and ordinary human experience, tells a different story. This fully referenced article explores the neuroscience of continuing bonds, why the brain maintains representations of the deceased, and how an ongoing internal relationship with someone who has died can be a source of comfort rather than a sign of dysfunction.
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