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Front Physiol. 2011 Oct 19;2:67. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2011.00067. eCollection 2011.

Anger, emotion, and arrhythmias: from brain to heart.

Frontiers in physiology

Peter Taggart, M R Boyett, S Logantha, Pier D Lambiase

Affiliations

  1. Neurocardiology Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University College London London, UK.

PMID: 22022314 PMCID: PMC3196868 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2011.00067

Abstract

Strong emotion and mental stress are now recognized as playing a significant role in severe and fatal ventricular arrhythmias. The mechanisms, although incompletely understood, include central processing at the cortical and brain stem level, the autonomic nerves and the electrophysiology of the myocardium. Each of these is usually studied separately by investigators from different disciplines. However, many are regulatory processes which incorporate interactive feedforward and feedback mechanisms. In this review we consider the whole as an integrated interactive brain-heart system.

Keywords: anger; brain–heart system; emotion; mental stress

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