It’s all connected: Your healthy heart and your healthy brain go together. When your ticker is in good shape, you’re less likely to have chronic illnesses like diabetes. And your risk for heart ...

February is famous for Valentine’s Day; the heart symbolizes love. When we are in love, we do not always use our brains to their full capacity (remember the old saying that “love is blind”). Also, in ...

Study shows how the heart and brain interact to influence sleep patterns and help with recovery. A heart attack can trigger a desire to get more sleep, allowing the heart to heal and reduce ...

Maintaining a stable heartbeat is critical for survival. Your heart must constantly adapt its output to meet changing demands for oxygen and nutrients. Traditionally, scientists have attributed this ...

New research from Karolinska Institutet and Columbia University shows that the heart has a mini-brain – its own nervous system that controls the heartbeat. A better understanding of this system, which ...

Everyone knows that the brain influences the heart. Stressful thoughts can set the heart pounding, sometimes with such deep force that we worry people can hear it. Anxiety can trigger the irregular ...