Cardio Psychiatry?

[ThinkTooMuch]

Is there such a speciality or training on how the mind affects heart health?

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[oldbearprofessor]

Is there such a speciality or training on how the mind affects heart health?

There might be, but I doubt it is part of pediatrics.

Perhaps repost on pyschiatry?? Consider adding some more details to what you are interested in.

 

[ThinkTooMuch]

someone move to psych polease.

 

[surftheiop]

Is there such a speciality or training on how the mind affects heart health?

Its not exactly what you were looking for but i think there was a thread a little while ago about people confusing panic attacks with heart symptoms, or something along those lines.

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=600368&highlight=defibrillator

 

[grandslam521]

Is there such a speciality or training on how the mind affects heart health?

You may want to look into psychoneuroendocrinology, psychosomatic medicine, and consultation liason psychiatry. Out of those three, only C/L is a board certified subspeciality of psychiatry. I'm sure there are medical centers and universities with specialists in psychoneuroendocrinology but it isn't a recognized subspeciality of any field as far as I know.

 

[strangeglove]

There is no specialized training for this, though you can focus on this area as a Consultation-Liaison psychiatrist. This is an active area of research, as described

here:
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/289/23/3106

here:
http://asp.cumc.columbia.edu/facdb/profile_list.asp?uni=rps7&DepAffil=Psychiatry

and here:
http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/abstract/155/1/4

 

[ThinkTooMuch]

neat. thx everyone that helps a lot.

 

[whopper]

As Strangelove mentioned.

You can clinically do Consult Liason psychiatry, or become a researcher in this area.

There are a number of ways psychiatric disorders affects the heart.

Antipsychotics can cause arrhythmias, Depression is correlated with higher homocysteine which does cause damage to the arteries, various SES factors does affect outcomes in heart disease, metabolic problems with psychotropics, etc.

However there is no specialized program of training specifically for psychiatric disorders & the heart, though CL psychiatry probably touches upon this the most. I wouldn't be surprised if in one CL program, there is someone who has made this an equivalent of specialty just out of self interest.

 

[chameleonknight]

Heart transplant patients typically receive a psych eval; as mentioned previously C/L psych (or psychosomatic as it's known on FREIDA) would give you the most exposure to this type of psychiatry.

 

[ThinkTooMuch]

Heart transplant patients typically receive a psych eval; as mentioned previously C/L psych (or psychosomatic as it's known on FREIDA) would give you the most exposure to this type of psychiatry.

i just checked it out on FREIDA. it says there are 35 programs available for it. do these programs refer to it as psychosomatic or CL?

 

[FuturaDocta]

This sounds like an interesting subject...

(Let me just note that I am a pre-med, so don't assume that I know a thing about medicine.)

Anyway, this became of interest to me when I saw a schizophrenic+OCD patient that was perfectly healthy (young, thin, and strong). But, when he was in the hospital, I noticed his heart rate was super jumpy and high the whole time he was asleep (knocked out with chlonidine for the first time). He never was able to rest before. It was very fascinating. It's kinda like staying up all the time (even that can make you a little kookoo).

The brain can devour and conquer everything, even your heart. Run for your lives!!!!!!