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- Study shows that chronic grief activates pleasure areas of the brain . . .
Reporting in the journal NeuroImage, scientists at UCLA suggest that such long-term or "complicated" grief activates neurons in the reward centers of the brain, possibly giving these memories addiction-like properties Their research is currently available in the journal's online edition
- Craving love? Enduring grief activates brain’s reward center
Analyses revealed that whereas both CG and NCG participants showed pain-related neural activity in response to reminders of the deceased, only those with CG showed reward-related activity in the nucleus accumbens (NA)
- Beyond dopamine: New reward circuitry discovered
In the search for new therapies to treat addiction and psychiatric illness, researchers are examining pathways beyond dopamine that could play a role in reward and reinforcement
- Grief Explained From a Neurobiological Perspective - Death With Dignity
To understand the origins of this attachment bond, Dr O’Connor draws from research on animals like voles, who form lifelong bonds These bonds lead to epigenetic changes in the brain, altering how genes express in regions like the nucleus accumbens, as this same brain region activates during grief
- Neurobiology and treatment advances for prolonged grief disorder - Nature
Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD) is a recently identified bereave-ment outcome added to DSM-5-TR in 2022 Loss of someone close is a major stressor, and ~7–10% of bereaved individuals develop PGD
- Unravelling the science behind grief and healing
Many neuroimaging studies have revealed that multiple separate brain regions, termed a distributed neural network, mediates the sensation of grief
- Grieving as a Form of Learning: Insights from Neuroscience Applied to . . .
Recent grief research suggests that the influential cognitive stress theory should be updated with evidence from cognitive neuroscience
- Addicted To Grief? Chronic Grief Activates Pleasure Areas Of The Brain
New research now suggests that people who never get over their loss, who never "let go," may be activating neurons in the reward centers of the brain, possibly giving these memories
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