Such cases are periodically reported in the media. I witnessed a case in my family. I am interested to know how common this might be, how it's been studied. What can this phenomenon teach about human pair bonding and romantic love more broadly? What are the ethical implications of intervention?
Hello Ted,
These articles may be of interest to you.
Best wishes,
Julio
PS: The article from Wang et al (A New Insight Into Sudden Cardiac Death in Young People: A Systematic Review of Cases of Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy) is a systematic review of reported cases involving young patients, between January 1965 and December 2013.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3214344/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4647181/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4800929/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26266349
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The ethical implications of intervention of such cases can be found by studying each and every case very deeply. Generally ethics varies person to person, region to region. It's a bit difficult to find the ethical implications. Working with a very big database of such cases, some hints may be found. But those hints may be very uncertain. Human psychology is totally co-ordinate independent topic.
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