Name: How your emotions change the shape of your heart | Sandeep Jauhar
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is as imbued with metaphor and meaning as the human heart.

the heart has been a symbol of our emotional lives.

It was considered by many to be the seat of the soul,

The very word "emotion" stems in part from the French verb "émouvoir,"

And perhaps it's only logical that emotions would be linked to an organ

I am here today to tell you that this link is very real.

can and do have a direct physical effect on the human heart.

let's talk a bit about the metaphorical heart.

The symbolism of the emotional heart endures even today.

If we ask people which image they most associate with love,

there's no question that the Valentine heart would the top the list.

It's found in the leaves, flowers and seeds of many plants,

which was used for birth control in the Middle Ages

and perhaps is the reason why the heart became associated

hearts began to appear in paintings of lovers in the 13th century.

Over time, the pictures came to be colored red,

the heart shape became known as the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

Adorned with thorns and emitting ethereal light,

This association between the heart and love has withstood modernity.

When Barney Clark, a retired dentist with end-stage heart failure,

received the first permanent artificial heart in Utah in 1982,

his wife of 39 years reportedly asked the doctors,

Today, we know that the heart is not the source of love

And yet, more and more, we have come to understand

that the connection between the heart and the emotions is a highly intimate one.

The heart may not originate our feelings,

In a sense, a record of our emotional life

Fear and grief, for example, can cause profound cardiac injury.

The nerves that control unconscious processes such as the heartbeat

and trigger a maladaptive fight-or-flight response

that triggers blood vessels to constrict,

that our hearts are extraordinarily sensitive to our emotional system,

There is a heart disorder first recognized about two decades ago

called "takotsubo cardiomyopathy," or "the broken heart syndrome,"

in which the heart acutely weakens in response to intense stress or grief,

such as after a romantic breakup or the death of a loved one.

As these pictures show, the grieving heart in the middle

looks very different than the normal heart on the left.

and frequently balloons into the distinctive shape of a takotsubo,

a Japanese pot with a wide base and a narrow neck.

and the syndrome usually resolves within a few weeks.

For example, the husband of an elderly patient of mine

It had been a very long illness; he'd had dementia.

But a week after the funeral, she looked at his picture

And then she developed chest pain, and with it, came shortness of breath,

a noticeable panting as she was sitting up in a chair --

where an ultrasound confirmed what we already suspected:

her heart had weakened to less than half its normal capacity

and had ballooned into the distinctive shape of a takotsubo.

Two weeks later, her emotional state had returned to normal

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