A broken heart can inflict damage as lasting a " and devastating a " as a heart attack, study finds

Not so fast, new research says: The most severe heartbreak - the kind triggered by emotional stress so debilitating it has a clinical name, Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, or "broken heart syndrome" - can leave its victims with long-term heart damage, researchers at the University of Aberdeen in the United Kingdom found. And while medical research confirming the syndrome's existence and digging into its causes has gotten stronger in recent years, this study published in the Journal of the American Soc