A friend of the author has been feeling depressed because he has been unable to carry out his work in the past few years. Recently I had a dispute with my family over something, and I felt even more unhappy. Recently, whenever I was alone at night, I felt depressed and sad. This continued for a few days, and I developed chest pain, suffocation, and shortness of breath, as if my heart was broken. She was worried that she had a heart problem and went to the hospital for a checkup. Based on her description, the doctor performed a magnetic resonance imaging examination of her heart. After getting the test results, the doctor told her that her condition is called "broken heart" syndrome, also known as stress cardiomyopathy . The heart usually has no obvious organic disease, and it is not really a "broken heart" .
There is no heart disease, so why do you have these symptoms? According to a result published by Swiss scholars in the "European Heart Journal", the brain is involved in the occurrence of "Broken Heart Syndrome" and is mainly responsible for processing emotions and controlling involuntary activity areas of the body, such as the heartbeat. , breathing and digestive areas have problems.
The same conclusion was reached at Fuwai Hospital , a famous cardiovascular hospital in China. The researchers said that although it is not currently proven that reduced brain function causes "broken heart" syndrome, changes in the central nervous system, together with stress or emotion, lead to "broken heart" syndrome.
Researchers conducted brain MRI examinations on 15 patients with "broken heart" syndrome and compared them with 39 healthy people.
Beijing Yimai Sunshine Medical Imaging Diagnostic Center Magnetom Prisma (3.0T) Magnetic Resonance Beijing Yimai Sunshine Magnetom Prisma (3.0T) Magnetic Resonance
Magnetom Prisma (3.0T) is the industry's top scientific research 3T magnetic resonance, which is equipped with the most advanced The intelligent scanning platform and Tim4G ultra-high density coil can achieve higher imaging quality and faster imaging speed. Equipped with a 64-channel neurofunctional dedicated coil, the signal-to-noise ratio and resolution of the image reach the ultimate level of 3T magnetic resonance.
When the Magnetom Prisma (3.0T) is connected to the brain, this big machine with sub-millimeter high-definition functional brain imaging function can draw the shape and size of the human brain it scans, and connect the nerve fibers in different areas of the brain. , as well as the functional activity changes of different brain circuits or pathways, and the fine structural organization. The brain map it presents is considered to be the scientific frontier for human cognitive brain function and further exploration of the nature of consciousness.
The researchers analyzed four specific brain regions that are spatially separated from each other but functionally related, meaning they share information, including the amygdala , hippocampus and cingulate gyrus, which control Emotion, motivation, learning, and memory. The amygdala and cingulate gyrus are also involved in the control and regulation of cardiac function by the autonomic nervous system . In addition, cingulate is also related to depression and mood disorders in patients with "broken heart" syndrome.
They found that compared with healthy people, people with "broken heart" syndrome had reduced communication between areas of the brain involved in emotional processing and the autonomic nervous system, which controls the unconscious work of the body.
Importantly, the researchers note, the areas where people with "broken heart" syndrome communicate less with each other are the same areas of the brain that control a person's response to stress. Therefore, this reduction in communication may lead to a negative impact on patients' responses to stress, making them more susceptible to developing "broken heart" syndrome.
Researchers say there may be more connections between the brain and heart than we thought. Just like "broken heart" syndrome, it is the brain that changes first, which leads to the "broken heart".
The study also concluded that "broken heart" syndrome is more common in women, with only 10% of cases occurring in men.
Broken heart syndrome will cause symptoms similar to heart disease when a person is depressed for a long time and is subject to sudden emotional stimulation.The most common clinical symptom is chest pain (75.9%), followed by dyspnea (46.9%). Rare symptoms include syncope, cardiogenic shock, cardiac arrest, malignant arrhythmia and pulmonary edema etc. Therefore, it is difficult to differentiate from acute coronary syndrome based on symptoms alone, and powerful imaging must be combined with laboratory examinations.
A person's greatest wealth is time. Letting it flow by in depression is really a waste of the life given by God. During this extraordinary period, wouldn't it be better to learn how to adjust your mentality, learn to reduce stress on yourself, and increase the value of your life and wealth?
