Bookedited by Ruud M. Buijs and Dick F. Swaab.
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.
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.