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Brain, Vol. 124, No. 3, 637-638, March 2001
© 2001 Oxford University Press

Book reviews

THE NERVOUS SYSTEM AND THE HEART.

Edited by Gert J. Ter Horst. 1999. New Jersey: Humana Press. Price $145. Pp. 584. ISBN 0-89603-693-6.

Michel Van Zandijcke

Department of Neurology, AZ Sint-Jan, Bruges, Belgium

In common language, the brain and the heart have been used as metaphors for thinking and feeling, for cognition and emotion. As a modern alternative, this book offers a scientific approach to the state-of-the-art knowledge about the complex relationship between these two organs. It does not deal with every aspect of the interrelationship between the heart and the nervous system, looking at these complex interactions mainly from the viewpoint of the heart and stressing the importance of knowledge in this domain for understanding cardiac function, physiology and disease. However, the heart–brain relationship in stroke, an important topic to the neurologist, is not discussed.

Chapter 1 describes the efferent and afferent nerve supply of the heart. It relies on studies in the pig, but also in humans. It reviews the neurotransmitters involved, . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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