The reason a chosen breakup can leave a hollow you did not choose: the good reasons for leaving live in one part of the brain, while the routines built around a person keep sending their signals for weeks with no one there to answer
· silicon canals editorial team
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The decision to leave a relationship gets made in the prefrontal cortex, but the routines built around another person live in the striatum — and those circuits keep firing on cue for weeks after the person is gone.
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