How Our Bodies Interact With Our Minds in Response to Fear and Other Emotions

Summary:
     This article links part of the brain to the heart that processes fear. Researchers have been recently looking into how the brain interacts with the other organs in its functions. They have discovered that your heart affects how your brain processes fear. Basically what they have found is whenever your heart is in systole, not relaxed state, and you something scary, you are going to be more scared than if you saw the same thing when your heart was in diastole, relaxed state. They used an MRI in order to view the brain during these tests and saw how a certain part of the brain was causing the change in its perception of fear according to the heart. An application researchers have thought for this is in therapeutic treatment for post traumatic stress disorder.

Connection:
     In class we have talked about the brain, the different parts of their brains and how each of them serves us. We also talked about the connection between the different body systems and how they affect each other, such as how the circulatory system is connected to the respiratory system. This article shows a connection between the circulatory and neural system.

Source:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130407211558.htm