Nobody can describe the pain and heartache that an individual go through with death, divorce or break up. For most of us, it can be life shattering, seemingly endless tearful nights and complex emotions. Oftentimes, people who experiences grief puts their life into a halt. At times, almost impossible to regain life and to move on.
Scientists from UCLA suggests that "long-term or "complicated" grief activates neurons in the reward centers of the brain, possibly giving these memories addiction-like properties."
Scientists from UCLA are trying to figure out whether complicated grief had greater activity occurring in either the brain's reward network or pain network than those with noncomplicated grief. They examined the activities at the "reward section" of the brain as well as the "pain network".
Scientists find out that only individuals with complicated grief showed significant nucleus accumbens activations.
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