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NEW STUDIES ON HOW BREAKUPS AFFECT THE BRAIN
By Silver Eagle Dream Dancer
By Alison McCook

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women who are distraught after breaking up with a romantic
partner show brain changes that are not seen in women less upset by a romantic rift, researchers
report.

Specifically, women who said they were particularly upset about the breakup showed greater
decreases in brain activity in brain regions associated with emotion, motivation and attention
while thinking sad thoughts about their former partners.

Emotion, motivation and attention are "all factors that go awry in depression and now, it appears
grief as well," Dr. Jeffrey P. Lorberbaum told Reuters Health. "We speculate that brain regions
involved in emotion, motivation and attention regions are impaired with severe grief," said
Lorberbaum, at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston.

These findings may provide clues to how the brain processes extreme sadness, and how that
sadness can sometimes lead to depression, he added. "If we can first understand the brain basis
of grief then we eventually might be able to help those who are disabled by grief, as well as
understand how depression gets triggered."

In the American Journal of Psychiatry, Lorberbaum and his colleagues suggest that depression
may sometimes occur when the brain becomes unable to properly handle sadness, separation or
grief.

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