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How grief rewires the brain and can affect health - and what to do about it Michael Merschel, American Heart Association News March 10, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Lea en español Grief is a common, if not universal, human experience. But that doesn t make it simple. It s psychological, but it affects people physically. It s a matter of science, but scientists who discuss it can sound poetic. Dr. Katherine Shear, professor of psychiatry at Columbia University School of Social Work in New York, calls grief the form that love takes when someone we love dies. COVID-19 has both brought grief and disrupted the way people experience it. But researchers have been examining grief since well before the pandemic. ....