Social Media Can Act as Safety Net for Grief-Stricken

New research suggest social media can help connect the bereaved to close friends — and that this development and use of social networks mimics biological systems.
As an example, neuroscientists believe the capacity to foster new social networks is similar to the way in which our body repairs itself after injury. That is, scientists have known that if certain brain cells are destroyed by a stroke, new circuits may be laid in another location to compensate, essentially rewiring the brai