Ep. 1058: Mary-Frances O'Connor Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Mary-Frances O'Connor, a grief expert and neuroscientist. She is an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Arizona and the Director of Clinical Training. Her research focuses on the physiological correlates of emotion, in particular the wide range of physical and emotional responses during bereavement, including yearning and isolation. She thinks that a clinical science approach to grieving can help improve treatment for prolonged grief disorder, which was added to the new DSM-5.
The topic is her book The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Groundbreaking discoveries about what happens in our brain when we grieve
- The difference between grief and grieving
- Analyzing and interpreting a patient's brain when it's grieving by using Neuroimaging
- The path of becoming a Neuroscientist
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I'm MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I'm proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.
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| 0:00.0 | This is trend following radio where great thinking comes alive. |
| 0:10.9 | Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings. |
| 0:21.2 | I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:27.4 | That's my passion. |
| 0:33.4 | My guest today is Mary Francis O'Connor. |
| 0:36.6 | Today we discuss a somber subject, her new book, |
| 0:40.0 | The Grieving Brain, The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss. |
| 0:47.2 | Mary Frances is a grief expert and neuroscientist. She shares today those groundbreaking discoveries about what happens in our brain when we |
| 0:58.3 | grieve. This is a whole new way to think about and understand love, loss, and learning. |
| 1:07.2 | We can't avoid loss. It's going to happen to us, whether it's the loss of a family member, the loss of a friend, the loss of a child, the loss of love. |
| 1:20.1 | This has been something that humans have dealt with since we've come onto the scene. |
| 1:26.6 | And it never gets easy. |
| 1:28.7 | But today, the science is able to see more of what's going on inside of us when these traumatic |
| 1:36.6 | moments happen. |
| 1:38.0 | And the hope is we can use this understanding to better deal with these situations. |
| 1:44.4 | Now, I find all of this fascinating because this is the kind of research, Mary Francis |
| 1:49.4 | research, her work is the kind of research that will enable us at some point in the future |
| 1:55.1 | to understand exactly what's going on inside our mind. |
| 2:00.0 | Now, maybe it won't happen for a million years, |
| 2:02.6 | but I really do think at one point in time in the future, we will figure it out. But even though |
| 2:08.4 | we're not to that point today, we are really far down the road. And I think you're going to be |
| 2:13.6 | surprised at some of the insights that Mary Francis brings to this tough topic of grieving. |
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