DESCRIPTION:
Gert Ter Horst and a panel of recognized experts illuminate the complexities and importance of heart-brain and brain-heart interactions in human health. These distinguished authorities critically review what is known about autonomic control of the heart, hypothalamo-pituitary- adrenal modulation, heart pain, modulation by humoral factors, and the relationship between cognitive/neuropsychiatric disorders and heart disease. Highly relevant and up-to-date, The Nervous System and the Heart offers the first comprehensive treatment of the important mutual interactions of the heart and the brain. By integrating specialist knowledge in cardiology with that from neuroscience, this important book constitutes a brilliant guide to today""s novel approaches to neural control of the heart and consequent reduction of cardiovascular mortality.
CONTENTS:
Part I. Autonomic Control Nerve Supply of the Heart
Emotions and Heart Activity Control: Neurocircuitries and Pathway Interactions
Circadian Organization of the Autonomic Nervous System
Neuropathology and Cardiovascular Regulation: Fundamental Aspects
Neuropathology and Cardiovascular Regulation: Clinical Aspects
Part II. The Hypothalamo-Pituitary-Adrenal System and the Heart Stress, the Hypothalamo-Pituitary-Adrenal System, and the Heart
Part III. Heart Pain Cardiac Nociceptive Systems
The Neuroanatomy of Cardiac Nociceptive Pathways: Differential Representations of "Deep" and "Superficial" Pain
Neurophysiology of Heart Pain
Neuroimaging of Heart Pain
Part IV Humoral Factors The Central Renin-Angiotensin System in Cardiovascular Regulation
Mediators of Inflammation in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease
Part V. Heart Disease and Brain Dysfunction Heart Disease and Cognitive/Neuropsychiatric Disorders
