Identity Loss After Divorce | Dr. Sydney Ceruto — MindLAB
Identity Loss After Divorce: How the Brain’s Self-Network Disintegrates and Rebuilds Identity loss after divorce is your medial prefrontal cortex losing the partner it had incorporated as a structural component of your neural self-model. The mPFC and posterior cingulate cortex run the brain’s self-referential network, and a long partnership had literally encoded the partner inside that network. Divorce removes the component. ...
