In The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World, co-author (with the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu) and narrator Douglas Carlton Abrams tells a story about his father, who suffered a brain ...

“Nothing really feels the same since she’s been gone,” my patient told me, tearing up. His wife of 30 years had died two months back. My patient felt his identity was connected with her, and he was ...

In March 1990, I was in a 60-mph head-on auto accident, and four months later I had surgery which left a hole in my left frontal lobe. Doctors told me I would never walk or talk again. Prior to the ...

Grieving is a form of learning, says a scientist who studies the brain's response to loss. When someone you love dies, you have to learn new rules... Holidays are never quite the same after someone we ...

In this wise and lucid guide, O’Connor (The Grieving Brain), a professor of psychology at the University of Arizona, examines the ways grief wreaks havoc on the brain and body and how those effects ...

ST. LOUIS — In THE GRIEVING BODY: How the Stress of Loss Can Be an Opportunity for Healing, acclaimed grief expert, neuroscientist, and psychologist Dr. Mary-Frances O’Connor follows her celebrated ...

Grief walks into the workplace quietly. It doesn’t clock in. It doesn’t announce itself in the Monday meeting. It shows up in missed deadlines, glazed-over eyes, unexpected outbursts, and the sudden ...

In a 2017 study of 771 bereaved that were 55 or older, around 25% of participants still experienced “persistent” grief after ...

Sawyer's Warriors nonprofit honors 10-year-old who died from brain cancer by helping other families through grief with retreats and financial support.

The Knicks were clawing their way past the Celtics in Game 1 of an NBA Playoffs match so intense, my two young sons morphed into courtside commentators operating at decibel levels usually reserved for ...

The man’s father allegedly emptied the contents of the bag into a washing machine only to find “human brain matter.” ...