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Neurocardiology is the study of the neurophysiological, neurological and neuroanatomical aspects of cardiology, including especially the neurological origins of cardiac disorders.^[1] The effects of stress on the heart are studied in terms of the heart's interactions with both the peripheral nervous system and the central nervous system.

Clinical issues in neurocardiology include hypoxic-ischemic brain injury, cerebral embolism, encephalopathy, neurologic sequelae of cardiac surgery and cardiac interventions, and cardiovascular findings in patients with primary neurological disease.^[2]

References

Literature

• Aulbert, E. A., et al.: Neurocardiology: the benefits of irregularity. The basics of methodology, physiology and current clinical applications. Acta Cardiol. 1999 (54) 107-120
• Levine RL (May 2007). "Neurocardiology". Resuscitation 73 (2): 186–8. doi:10.1016/j.resuscitation.2007.01.012. PMID 17346869. 
• Gielerak G (Jun 2007). "[Neurocardiology--contemporary advanced research concerning arrhythmia mechanisms and sudden cardiac death"] (in Polish). Kardiol Pol 65 (6): 709–14. PMID 17629835. http://www.cardiology.termedia.pl/showarticle.php?id=8530. 

See also

• Cardiology
• Central nervous system
• Peripheral nervous system

External links

NINDS Clinical Neurocardiology Section