Connection between anxiety and heart rate | 90 Seconds w/ Lisa Kim
Standing on the edge of a precipice, losing your way in a dark forest or running into a crush will quicken your pulse — a physical consequence of the anxiety you experience. But a new study in mice by Stanford Medicine scientists has found evidence of the reverse: A faster heart rate can generate anxiety.
When researchers artificially boosted an animal’s heart rate (the number of times a heart beats each minute), it behaved more cautiously in risky situations. The researchers traced the change to a particular region of the cortex, which appears to integrate heart rate with the brain’s perception of danger to determine the appropriate emotional response.
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Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD, is a professor of bioengineering and of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University. He is also a practicing psychiatrist at Stanford with specialization in affective disorders and autism-spectrum disease, employing medications along with neural stimulation.
Lisa Kim is Senior Manager of Media Relations for Stanford Medicine and Stanford Health Care. Lisa has a deep background in journalism, as she is an Emmy Award-winning journalist who has covered stories on both the national and local levels.
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