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European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on October 14, 2005
European Heart Journal 2005 26(24):2607-2608; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehi576
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© The European Society of Cardiology 2005. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

The brain and the heart: the twain meet

Roy C. Ziegelstein1,* and Brett D. Thombs2

1Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, B-1-North, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, 4940 Eastern Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21224-2780, USA
2Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore, MD, USA

* Corresponding author. Tel: +1 410 550 0523; fax: +1 410 550 1094.E-mail address: rziegel@jhmi.edu

This editorial refers to ‘Relationship between left ventricular dysfunction and depression following myocardial infarction: data from the MIND-IT’{dagger} by J.P. van Melle et al., on page 2650

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‘Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet...’

Rudyard Kipling

The Ballad of East and West

A little more than a decade ago, we formed a group— comprised of both cardiologists and psychologists—to study post-myocardial infarction (MI) depression, stimulated by the paucity of information on the care of patients with this condition at the time and by the seminal work of Frasure-Smith et al.1 reporting a link between depression and increased mortality after MI. When we discussed this topic and our research with other cardiologists, most had a similar response, ‘Of course a patient after an MI is depressed, he's got a bad heart. You'd be depressed too!’ Cardiologists typically noted that it seemed natural to them that a person with a sick heart would be depressed. They explained away the relationship between depression and increased post-MI mortality by . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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