Wise Aging Speaker Series with Dr. Mary Frances O'Connor, PhD, author of The Grieving Brain

Mary-Frances O’Connor, PhD is an associate professor of psychology at the University of Arizona. She is at the author of The Grieving Brain, The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss. Dr. O’Connor directs the Grief, Loss and Social Stress Lab at the University of Arizona which investigates the effects of grief on the brain and the body. She is a leader in the field of complicated, long term grief, psychoneuroimmunology and grief and of collective grief in the American Black/Latinx community. Grief is one of the hallmark experiences of being human. In this talk Dr. O’Connor will combine storytelling, accessible science and practical knowledge to help us better understand and navigate grief.  

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