Monday, June 16, 2008

arrhythmias are precipitated by emotional stimuli

JAMES W. JEFFERSON
Psychocardiology: Meeting place of heart and mind
Psychosomatics, Nov 1985; 26: 841 - 842.
*......life-threatening, often fatal, arrhythmias are precipitated by emotional stimuli, and effective treatments such as high thoracic left sympathectomy are directed at the nervous sys-tem rather than the heart.