Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

You really can die of sadness – and also happiness

(Version anglaise seulement)

par Adam Taylor, Professor and Director of the Clinical Anatomy Learning Centre, Lancaster University

Dying of a broken heart was just a figure of speech until 2002 when Dr Hikaru Sato and colleagues at Hiroshima City Hospital described it in a study. Sato named the condition takotsubo cardiomyopathy. It was quickly dubbed “broken heart syndrome”.

More recently, scientists have discovered that you can also die of an excess of happiness. And it is the same condition: takotsubo cardiomyopathy.…

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