This Is Your Brain on Grief

If you knew and loved one of the 500,000-plus people lost to the pandemic, here’s what might be going on in your brain right now.

Dana G Smith
Elemental
Published in
5 min readFeb 23, 2021

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This is a modified excerpt from Inside Your Head 🧠, a weekly newsletter exploring why your brain makes you think, feel, and act the way you do, written by me, Elemental’s senior writer and a former

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Dana G Smith
Elemental

Health and science writer • PhD in 🧠 • Words in Scientific American, STAT, The Atlantic, The Guardian • Award-winning Covid-19 coverage for Elemental