Autonomic Nervous System Basic and Clinical Aspects /

• Main Author: Cardinali, Daniel Pedro (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Neurology .; Human physiology.; Neurosciences.; Neurology.; Human Physiology.

A traditional view of the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) considers only its peripheral part: the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems. However, this view misses to consider the most important ANS function: the maintenance of homeostasis. This term is used today to define not only the strategies t...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• The enlarged Autonomic Nervous System
• The timed Autonomic Nervous System
• First level: Peripheral sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system
• Second level: The brainstem
• Third level: The hypothalamus
• Fourth level: The limbic system
• Clinical implications of the enlarged Autonomic Nervous System
• Clinical implications of the timed Autonomic Nervous System.