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

The Neuroscience of Continuing Bonds

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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