Curbing Chronic Hostility May Improve Heart Health
A growing body of evidence, much of it developed over the past decade, makes a provocative case that being an angry person increases your risk for heart disease.
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The emerging field of Neurocardiology is on the move!!
The HeartMuseum.org project is collecting new underpinning science of the heart/brain communication and Heart Rate Variability (HRV) like this article.What is not covered in the article or in the research projects described above is the effect of erratic HRV on brain function, mental clarity, cognitive performance, and decision making. Research has shown impaired brain function, loss of memory, loss of cognitive speed, impaired learning ability and loss of perceptual clarity when the heart is producing stressful/erratic HRV patterns. This would stand to reason since the electrical signals from the heart are being sent directly to the brain constantly at an electrical amplitude approximately 50 times stronger than that of the brain. It is in this area that professionals and executives can see improved performance. Managing HRV directly affects how people communicate, problem-solve, make decisions, prioritize and manage time, think creatively and on a wide scale, etc. Every aspect of cognitive performance is inextricably tied to the rhythms of the heart.
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Posted by HeartMuseum on 06/18 at 08:30 AM
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