{"id":193332,"date":"2024-07-23T04:22:24","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T09:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/study-brains-reward-system-could-help-heart-attack-recovery"},"modified":"2024-07-23T04:22:24","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T09:22:24","slug":"study-brains-reward-system-could-help-heart-attack-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/study-brains-reward-system-could-help-heart-attack-recovery","title":{"rendered":"Study: Brain\u2019s Reward System Could Help Heart Attack Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-brains-reward-system-could-help-heart-attack-recovery2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/home-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Technion \u2013 Israel Institute of technology<\/a> in Haifa have shown that boosting a person\u2019s mental state could help them recover from a heart attack.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers focused on the reward system \u2013 a network in the brain that is activated when a person is motivated or in a positive emotional state \u2013 in order to ascertain its impact on recovery from a heart attack, formally known as an acute myocardial infarction (AMI).<\/p>\n<p>They found that activating this system in mice led to better clinical outcomes and reduced scarring of the heart tissue. And while the science behind the link between the brain and the heart is still undefined, the Technion said the study raises hopes of improved treatment for heart disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the Technion \u2013 Israel Institute of technology in Haifa have shown that boosting a person\u2019s mental state could help them recover from a heart attack. The researchers focused on the reward system \u2013 a network in the brain that is activated when a person is motivated or in a positive emotional state \u2013 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}