Intrusive Thoughts After Infidelity | MindLAB Neuroscience
Intrusive Thoughts After Infidelity: The Neuroscience of Why Your Brain Won’t Stop Replaying the Betrayal Intrusive thoughts after infidelity reflect three interlocking neural failures: hippocampal time-stamp failure under cortisol-saturated encoding, default mode network prediction-error looping as it tries to reconcile the old partner-model against new betrayal data, and thalamo-cortical gating failure that lets sensory cues trigger involuntary replay. It is a memory-architecture problem, not a character flaw. ...
