Anger, emotion and mental stress: From brain to heart

Strong emotion and mental stress are now recognised as playing a significant role in severe and fatal ventricular arrhythmias. The mechanisms although incompletely understod, include central processing at the cortical and brain stem level, the autonomic nerves and the electrophysiology of the myocar...

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Main Authors: Peter eTaggart, Pier eLambiase
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2011-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Physiology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fphys.2011.00067/full