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Brain and Heart

Emotional Rescue: The Heart-Brain Connection

The silent, often subconscious conversation that is taking place inside us is one of the most vital communications we will ever find ourselves engaged in.

Brain and Heart

How Do You Mend a Broken Heart? New Insights into the Links Between Depression and Cardiovascular Disease

Many people with low mood also carry higher risk for heart troubles, and vice versa. Inflammation may be a conduit for both.
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Brain and Heart

Heart Associations Add Brain-Health Recommendations

Researchers find strong connections between mid-life heart health and later-life brain health.
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Brain and Heart

When a Defective Heart Damages the Brain

Q&A with Daniel Licht, M.D.

Timing of Surgery May Be Key to Preventing Cognitive Complications of Congenital Heart Defects
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Predicting Effects of Surgery on Cognition

At a recent NYAS conference, researchers compare notes, trying to suss out why so many older people show signs of delirium just after surgery, and to predict which ones will progress to longer-term dysfunction and earlier-onset dementia.
Brain and Heart

Your Brain and Heart Surgery

The relationship between heart bypass surgery and brain health is more complex than many of us realize. Whereas cognitive problems sometimes seem to be caused by surgery, recent findings suggest that they instead stem from problems that were present before surgery.
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Looking to the Brain to Save the Heart

Cardiologists at Massachusetts General Hospital look at how depression and anxiety may interact with heart disease and ask how physicians and their patients should respond.

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