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Autonomic Nervous System provides an introduction to the latest science and detailed chapters on advances in the clinical diagnosis and treatment of autonomic system disorders. The autonomic nervous system controls all involuntary actions within the human nervous system. Core body functions regulate...
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Elsevier,
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| Publisher Address: | [Place of publication not identified] : |
| Publication Dates: | 2013. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Handbook of clinical neurology ;
volume 117 |
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| Online Access: |
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/handbooks/00729752/117 |
| Summary: |
Autonomic Nervous System provides an introduction to the latest science and detailed chapters on advances in the clinical diagnosis and treatment of autonomic system disorders. The autonomic nervous system controls all involuntary actions within the human nervous system. Core body functions regulated by the autonomic system include breathing, heartbeat, blood pressure, body temperature, perspiration, and bowel, bladder and sexual function. Our understanding of the neurotransmitters associated with the autonomic nervous system has expanded over the past 15 years associated with current research efforts and are now impacting the diagnosis and treatment of autonomic nervous system disorders by clinical neurologists. This volume is a valuable companion for neuroscience and clinical neurology researchers and practitioners. A volume in the Handbook of Clinical Neurology series, which has an unparalleled reputation as the world's most comprehensive source of information in neurologyInternational list of contributors, including the leading workers in the fieldDescribes the advances that have occurred in clinical neurology and the neurosciences and their impact on the understanding of neurological disorders and on patient care. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xiii, 417 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
1299964672 9781299964679 9780444534910 0444534911 9780444534927 044453492X |
| Index Number: | RC407 |
| CLC: | R741 |
| Contents: | The autonomic nervous system; what do we miss? -- Differential responses of components of the autonomic nervous system -- Cotransmission in the autonomic nervous system -- Sensitization of endocrine organs to anterior pituitary hormones by the autonomic nervous system -- Central control of autonomic function and involvement in neurodegenerative disorders -- Interaction between cognition, emotion and the autonomic nervous system -- Interoception and ANS reflexes thermoregulation -- Regulation of blood pressure by the arterial baroreflex and autonomic nervous system -- Cooling, pain and other feelings from the body in relation to the autonomic nervous system -- The neurological organization of micturition -- The clinical importance of the anti-inflammatory vago-vagal reflex -- The role of the autonomic nervous system in cardiac arrhythmias -- Exercise and the autonomic nervous system -- Autonomic control of bone formation: its clinical relevance -- The circadian system and the balance of the autonomic nervous system -- Autonomic nervous system control of the cerebral circulation -- Autonomic regulation of kidney function -- Autonomic neural control of the airways -- Multiple system atrophy -- Pure autonomic failure -- Autonomic dysfunction in Parkinson disease -- Diabetic autonomic neuropathy -- Hypoglycemia-associated autonomic failure in diabetes -- Sensory-autonomic interactions in health and disease -- Autoimmune autonomic failure -- The central sympathetic nervous system in hypertension -- Pathology of emesis: its autonomic basis -- Sympathetic microneurography -- Sympathetic neuroimaging -- Skin biopsies in the assessment of the autonomic nervous system -- Heart rate variability -- Chronic activation of the baroreflex and the promise for hypertension therapy. |