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Hello,
I'm an undergraduate student in physiology and neuroscience and would like to pursue an MD/PhD in the future. I recently came across an article on neurocardiology titled Stressed brain, diseased heart in the International Journal of Cardiology. I will probably sound like a complete idiot, but I did not know the field existed...it's a bit like a dream come true for me; I'm very interested in cardiology, neuroscience and the impact stress has on our physiological health. Obviously I am aware that I'm still very young and I will probably change my mind along the way, but I would really like to learn more about the subject and Google isn't very helpful. I read the Wikipedia entry, and I understand *vaguely* what it is about. But to me, there is nothing like a good ol' chat with someone who understands the subject, so if you are a neurocardiologist or if you know a bit about the subject, I would be very grateful if you could write a little bit about your thoughts and advice (if I ever stick with it).
Thank you in advance 🙂
 
There is no serial fellowship from cardiology into neurology or vice versa. If you wanted training in both general fields, you'd have to do a 3 years medicine residency, a 3 year cardiology fellowship, a 3 year neurology advanced residency (since you'd already have an IM intern year), and then likely some sort of non-accredited clinical/research fellowship that integrates the two.

To be honest, your best bet at integrating the two would be some sort of comparative stroke-MI research that arrives at some novel conclusion by taking both into view. Or something focusing on autonomic control of the cardiovascular system, etc. The "stress" thing is a little too vague and would more properly fall into the psychiatry rather than neurology realm.
 
Menrva said:
Hello,
I'm an undergraduate student in physiology and neuroscience and would like to pursue an MD/PhD in the future. I recently came across an article on neurocardiology titled Stressed brain, diseased heart in the International Journal of Cardiology. I will probably sound like a complete idiot, but I did not know the field existed...it's a bit like a dream come true for me; I'm very interested in cardiology, neuroscience and the impact stress has on our physiological health. Obviously I am aware that I'm still very young and I will probably change my mind along the way, but I would really like to learn more about the subject and Google isn't very helpful. I read the Wikipedia entry, and I understand *vaguely* what it is about. But to me, there is nothing like a good ol' chat with someone who understands the subject, so if you are a neurocardiologist or if you know a bit about the subject, I would be very grateful if you could write a little bit about your thoughts and advice (if I ever stick with it).
Thank you in advance 🙂
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I read that article. As I was putting together a case presentation about a patient who'd seize and then come in with heart failure that would resolve (stress cardiomyopathy). Anyway, if you're interested in this, just do internal medicine and cardiology. There is NO need to worry about neurology in this context.
 
Stress induced cardiomyopathy also called takotsubo also called broken heart syndrome is a clinical entity. Maybe u could do your research in that and we will learn more about this. But I hate to disappoint it isn't a big field. U can be a cardiologist and work with neurologist in further making the connections or vice versa
 
I have seen acute cardiomyopathy in patients with sub-arachnoid bleeds/aneurysm. This is described. If you are interested in researching this clinical entity, you could do neuro or IM +/- cardiology and figure out an approach (bench, clinical, or both).
 
Dr. Goldstein at the NIH has a autonomic neurology program and refers to himself as a "neurocardiologist". His work is currently in sympathetic neuron damage in the heart in Parkinson's disease. I'm sure he has research positions you could try for.
The NIH and Medical college of Wisconsin both have fellowships in Autonomic neurology.
 
While this post is a few years old, it still comes up as a top hit when searching neurocardiology. For anyone interested, look into the HeartMath Institute! Surprising findings to guage neurological function come from studying heart rate variability.
 
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