Instant Genius Podcast: The Neuroscience of Grief, with Mary-Frances O’Connor

Neuroscientist and psychologist Mary-Frances O'Connor joins us on our podcasts, Instant Genius and Instant Genius Extra.

Published: March 14, 2022 at 7:00 am

Instant Genius is a bite-sized masterclass in podcast form. In this week's episode, we talk to neuroscientist and psychologist Mary-Frances O'Connor. She's the author of The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss (£20, Harper Collins).

She explains the latest thinking on what happens to our brains when we experience grief and loss.

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And if that's not enough, you can hear even more from Mary-Frances on Instant Genius Extra.

On this subscription-only show, available on Apple Podcasts, we take a deeper dive into the topics covered onInstant Genius. In this episode, Mary-Frances talks about why modern science has moved on from thinking of grieving as a discrete five-stage process.

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