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Gone But Also Everlasting: A Hypothesis of How Body, Mind, and Brain Adapt During Grieving| title | Gone But Also Everlasting: A Hypothesis of How Body, Mind, and Brain Adapt During Grieving |
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| start_date | 2024/03/18 |
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| schedule | 15h15 |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | Room B10 |
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| summary | Bereavement can result in emotional pain, difficulty functioning, and risk for negative health outcomes. A subset of ~10% of bereaved people develop prolonged grief disorder (PGD), newly added in DSM5-TR in 2022. The hallmark symptom of PGD is yearning, an emotion with a strong motivation to seek out the deceased loved one. O’Connor presents the Gone But Also Everlasting hypothesis, suggesting that grief arises from the mismatch of two streams of information: the memory for the death of the loved one, and attachment neurobiology, which includes the semantic information that the loved one is everlasting, even when they are not present. The conflict between these two streams of information may slow the learning necessary to update predictions of the absence of the deceased during grieving. A healthy and resilient body can support this upheaval during grieving, allowing flexible emotional regulation, but in some cases, overwhelming waves of grief may lead to the hypertension and even myocardial infarction. |
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| responsibles | Allen |
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| submitted | published | | 2024/03/13 11:31 UTC |
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