Takotsubo syndrome: How the broken heart deals with negative emotions.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Patients suffering from Takotsubo syndrome have a higher prevalence of anxiety and depressive disorders compared to those with acute myocardial infarction and might thus show impaired regulation and processing of emotions.

Methods

In this cross-sectional study, neural activity during an emotional picture processing task was examined in 26 Takotsubo patients (on average 27 months after the Takotsubo event) and 22 healthy age- and gender-matched control subjects undergoing functional magnetic resonance imaging. Imaging data were analyzed with two complementary approaches: First, univariate analysis was used to detect brain regions showing condition-specific differences in mean neural activity between groups. Second, multivariate pattern analysis was applied to decod

SUBMITTER: Klein C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6938811 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature