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Dec 20, 2021 · Grieving is a form of learning, says a scientist who studies the brain's response to loss. When someone you love dies, you have to learn new rules for navigating the world and your brain has...
- What Is The Soul?
- Stripping Humans of The Soul
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It is not only religious thinkers who have proposed that we possess a soul. Some of the most notable proponents have been philosophers, such as Plato (424-348 BCE) and René Descartes in the 17th century. Plato believed we do not learn new thingsbut recall things we knew before birth. For this to be so, he concluded, we must have a soul. Centuries l...
In the 1960s, Nobel laureate Roger Sperry showed that the mind and our consciousness are divisible, therefore disproving that aspect of Descartes’ theory. Sperry studied patients whose corpus callosum, the superhighway connecting the right and left hemispheres, had been severed by surgery aiming to control the spread of epileptic seizures. The surg...
If the soul is where emotion and motivation reside, where mental activity occurs, sensations are perceived, memories are stored, reasoning takes place and decisions are taken, then there is no need to hypothesise its existence. There is an organ that already performs these functions: the brain. This idea goes back to the ancient physician Hippocrat...
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Feb 27, 2024 · Neuroscience. Why does it hurt so much to lose someone you love? What happens in your brain as it strives to cope? Pioneering psychologist Mary-Frances O’Connor worked on one of the first...
But we now understand that the emotional trauma of loss has profound effects on the mind, brain, and body. An especially pronounced example is the Broken Heart Syndrome where stress hormones result in abnormal heart movements and symptoms of chest pain and shortness of breath.
Sep 23, 2020 · Grief actually increases brain activity. The amygdala, prefrontal cortex, and the insula—all areas of the brain that control emotional processing and pain—are impacted because intense emotional pain triggering the brain’s reward center creating “addiction” to the person or circumstances lost.
- Cheyanne Perry
Jan 8, 2023 · Grief is a complex response to loss. It includes emotional, cognitive, behavioral and physiological changes, which means many parts of the brain are involved in generating the grief response.
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Mar 10, 2021 · Grief can reinforce brain wiring that effectively locks the brain in a permanent stress response, Shulman said. To promote healthy rewiring, people need to strengthen the parts of the brain that can regulate that response.
