Neurovisceral integration model: the brain-heart connection

About 150 years ago, Claude Bernard made a connection between the brain and the heart. The scientist proposed that the prefrontal cerebral cortex had a regulatory function on the activity of subcortical circuits related to the motivated response. Years later, Thayer and Lane (2000) called this connection a neurovisceral integration model. Thus, this model would […]

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