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@ARTICLE{Scheitz:285916,
author = {Scheitz, Jan F and Villringer, Arno and Mikail, Nidaa and
Gebhard, Catherine and Endres, Matthias},
title = {{B}idirectional brain-heart interactions in health and
disease.},
journal = {Nature reviews / Neurology},
volume = {22},
number = {4},
issn = {1759-4758},
address = {London},
publisher = {Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature},
reportid = {DZNE-2026-00362},
pages = {209 - 225},
year = {2026},
abstract = {The brain and heart constantly communicate with each other
to adapt to changes in the environment. In recent years, we
have seen increasing recognition that brain-heart
interactions influence many cognitive and behavioural
functions, and that disturbances in this bidirectional
relationship can have detrimental effects on both organs.
Clinically, such disturbances can manifest as cardiac
dysfunction following acute psychological stress or a brain
injury such as acute ischaemic stroke, or as cognitive
disorders in patients with acute or chronic heart disease.
In this Review, we provide an overview of the physiological
interaction between the heart and the brain and show how
injury or dysfunction in one of these organs can lead to
dysfunction in the other. We describe the current state of
knowledge on neuronal correlates and humoral mediators of
brain-heart interactions, as well as state-of-the-art
methods for studying these interactions. We highlight the
clinical implications of disturbances in physiological
brain-heart communication for various clinical conditions,
including Takotsubo syndrome resulting from emotional stress
or from brain disorders, cardiac complications after stroke
(so-called stroke-heart syndrome), and cognitive dysfunction
in patients with cardiac diseases such as heart failure and
atrial fibrillation. In addition, we address sex and gender
differences in this bidirectional relationship.},
subtyp = {Review Article},
keywords = {Humans / Brain: physiology / Brain: physiopathology / Heart
Diseases: physiopathology / Heart: physiology / Heart:
physiopathology / Animals / Stress, Psychological:
physiopathology},
cin = {AG Endres},
ddc = {610},
cid = {I:(DE-2719)1811005},
pnm = {353 - Clinical and Health Care Research (POF4-353)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-353},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {pmid:41927938},
doi = {10.1038/s41582-025-01180-w},
url = {https://pub.dzne.de/record/285916},
}