What’s new: Grief activates a part of the brain associated with feelings of reward in people with so-called complicated grief, the psychiatric term for sadness that persists long after a person has ...

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Grief is often characterized as an emotional roller coaster: On some days, those who have lost a loved one feel incredibly sad and full of pain, while on other days they feel a lightness, or even a ...

(Updated Sept. 26, 2014) An intervention specifically targeting symptoms of complicated grief, a debilitating state of prolonged, acute grief, is superior to a treatment used for depression, a new ...

CHICAGO — The benefits of cognitive grief treatment (CGT), the gold standard treatment for complicated grief, significantly exceed those of antidepressant monotherapy, but sleep disturbances can ...

It’s not unusual to feel sad after someone close to you dies, like a parent or spouse. But sometimes your emotions – yearning, anger, bitterness – become so intense they derail the grieving process ...

Stephanie Muldberg felt like she would be sad forever. She felt isolated and preferred to sit alone at home, overcome with waves of emotion – anger, guilt and bitterness. Muldberg’s 13-year-old son, ...

Losing a loved one can have a deeper effect on a person during the pandemic. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, health experts are warning about the risk of prolonged grief disorder among people ...

The coronavirus pandemic has turned every aspect of our lives on its head, including how we mourn the dead. Concerns about COVID-19 have prompted many states, funeral homes, and cemeteries in the U.S.

Dear Doctors: My mother and stepfather were married for 42 years when he passed away suddenly. That was a year ago, and she’s still struggling. I talked to my doctor about it, and he said it sounds ...

While there has been over a century-old history of attempting to delineate and classify complicated forms of grief within thanatology (the scientific study of death) little of this was reflected in ...