Stress, Anxiety and Heart Disease

Thursday, 2 September 2010 08:30 - 10:30

Chair Professor Graham Burrows The Melbourne ClinicAustralia
Stress Cardiomyopathy in 2010 : Further Insights into the mechanism of stress induced myocardial stunning
Getting to the heart of sudden death
  • Professor Chris Semsarian, University of Sydney, Australia
Active projections to nucleus raphe pallidus during conditioned fear in the rat
  • Dr Daniel M Vianna, University of New South Wales, Australia
Early life stress blunts endothelial angiotensin (Ang) II signaling and enhances Ang II-induced vasoconstriction in adult male rats
  • Dr Jennifer S Pollock, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA, United States
A sympathetic view of stress related illnesses
  • Dr Gavin W Lambert, Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Australia