ADRIA VOLTA
For hundreds of years, nostalgia wasn’t just an emotion, but a potentially . Coined by a , nostalgia struck down servants in and killed during the American Civil War. It was a kind of pathological homesickness and while its exact mechanism is unclear, it caused people to slowly waste away. Weak and unable to eat, some starved to death.
These days, we view nostalgia very differently. Now, psychologists and neuroscientists think nostalgia is a , albeit bittersweet, emotion that arises from personally salient, tender, wistful memories of…
