The Grieving Brain
Mary-Frances O’Connor
Throwing out the map
Fortunately, the brain is good at solving problems. In fact, the brain exists for precisely this function. After decades of research, I realised that the brain devotes lots of effort to mapping where our loved ones are while they are alive, so that we can find them when we need them. And the brain often prefers habits and predictions over new information. But it struggles to learn new information that cannot
