Medicine pursues a mind-heart connection
Friday, February 18, 2011 - 22:00
in Health & Medicine
A link is difficult to map, but evidence suggests that depression and heart disease can affect each other. Doctors wrestle with how to reach out to patients.The melancholy mind and the broken heart: For poets and philosophers through the ages, the two have been fellow travelers, chicken and egg, bookends in a long litany of tragedies.
