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Based on the 1) personality changes observed following heart transplantations; 2) the two-way, dynamic, ongoing dialog between the brain and the heart and its reflection as alterations in heart rate variability; 3) the prominent role of amygdala in cardiovascular regulation during rapid eye movement sleep and 4) the importance of rapid eye movement sleep in the developing brain to establish proper neuronal circuits and its memory consolidation effect; 5) the role of cardiac neural crest cells in heart development and 6) the effects of Atrial and Brain Natriuretic Peptides; I hypothesize that the heart, particularly the SA node, could function in emotional memory processing and storage in collaboration with related brain regions. Moreover, intervention to SA node in certain psychiatric diseases with underlying unwanted memories and life experiences could be a novel choice of therapy. 

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