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Ask The Author Q & A: The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss

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Ask The Author Q & A: The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss
Wednesday, July 09, 2025 12:00 pm
- 1:00 pm ET

In this webinar, neuroscientist and psychologist Mary-Frances O’Connor, PhD, shares a fascinating new window into one of the hallmark experiences of being human. O’Connor has devoted decades to researching the effects of grief on the brain, and in this book, she makes cutting-edge neuroscience accessible and guides readers through how we encode love and grief. Based on O’Connor’s own trailblazing neuroimaging work, research in the field, and her real-life stories, The Grieving Brain combines storytelling, accessible science, and practical knowledge that will help us better understand what happens when we grieve and how to navigate loss with more ease and grace. 

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Mary-Frances O'Connor, PhD

Mary-Frances O'Connor, PhD

Mary-Frances O’Connor, PhD, conducts studies to better understand the grief process both psychologically and physiologically. She is a leader in the field of prolonged grief, a clinical condition in which people do not adjust to the acute feelings of grief and show increases in yearning, avoidance, and rumination. Her work primarily focuses on trying to tease out the mechanisms that cause this ongoing and severe reaction to loss. In particular, she is curious about the neurobiological, immune, and cardiovascular factors that vary between individual responses to grief.

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