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The bonding hormone it’s sometimes called

And also opioids, are very densely shuttled back and forth

Between neurons and this nucleus accumbent region

The thing that seems strange initially was

Why would you get more of this reward

Circuitry activated in people who aren't doing as well

They’re looking at a photo at someone that they yearn for

And yearning is maybe another way of saying craving

So, it seems and we don’t have longitudinal studies

That show this but

You can interpret the result

That most of us as we come to understand

The world without our loved ones

Our brain is able to recognize that the photo of this person

Doesn’t any longer predict

That we’re going to see them

That as much as we may have memories and good memories

When we look at a photograph

It’s not the same as cueing us to try and reach out for them

For the people who have complicated grief

They do seem to persist in really wanting that person

Although they cognitively know the person is gone

They persist in wanting them to be there

It’s an overwhelming feeling

And in fact the activation in this region was correlated

So those who had higher activation in this area

Also told us they had the highest levels of yearning

When we just asked them

How much do you yearn on a daily basis for your deceased loved one