Heartbreak and the Brain



Heartbreak and the Brain

Sadness and broken hearts: Neuro-Humoral mechanisms And co-morbidity of ischemic heart disease and psychological depression

In this article author discusses about the relationship between broken heart and stress. There is a very strong relationship found among them. It is commonly said that heart control all the emotion that a person can feel. But the brain is supposedly used for the intellectual purposes. In this article author specifically discusses the co-morbidity of ischemic heart disease and psychological depression. Ischemic heart disease is a disease caused by a reduced blood supply to the heart to obstruction or narrowing of blood vessels that nourish the heart muscle, the myocardium (Johnson & Grippo 2006).

These vessels, called coronary arteries, they are subject, as other arteries of various body districts, to a process of stiffening and fat deposition on the walls, a phenomenon commonly known by the name of atherosclerosis, which develops normally with the passage of years. Psychology since the late sixties of the last century began an interesting process that has engaged in the study and treatment of health problems - disease.

Based on the analysis of the human being has become very important assumptions that have contributed to the development of health psychology and psychological science in general. But is it possible to study emotions when even the scientists are clear about what is an emotion? We believe that yes, said the researcher. We place people in a resonator magnetic and asked them to do something, you remember, or show them pictures; then compared with the normal activity he said. Johnson & Grippo (2006) added: 'The emotion is a early reaction, which runs the amygdala, and that humans share even with the rats. Of course there are more refined emotions are cultural products.

The pride and envy not yet detected in animals. Meet the neurological basis, know where in the brain-active - not only serves to expand an area of knowledge and practical implications too. By Armony,-pathologies such as autism, in which the person is unable to read emotions, are due to neural factors to be determined. Or even the serial murderers, or people who do not mind the feeling of others. The interesting thing is that when see someone suffer the same warning is part of the brain when one is suffering.

Cultural Competence Column: Heartbreak and Physical Pain Linked in Brain

In this article author discusses that the more complex mammalian brain reptilian brain works to prepare a impulsive reaction, pre frontal lobes do to allow a more appropriate, acting as a regulator of the above complex. The prefrontal cortex may come into play when we feel such fear or anger to contain or control these emotions in order to deal more effectively with the immediate situation (Flaskerud 2011). They originate a response appropriate for analytical or emotional impulses, the highest proportion of information coming from the thalamus is not going to emotional brain that reaches only 5%, but the crust which reaches 100%, to report more ...