The autonomic nervous system (ANS) is comprised of sympathetic and parasympathetic branches that control core adaptive systems, including cardiac regulation, across periods of rest, reactivity, and recovery. De
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Our sympathetic nervous system plays a vital role in helping us respond to dangerous situations. Here's how 'fight or flight' works.
S.R. Steinhauer, G.J. Siegle, R. Condray, M. Pless Sympathetic and parasympathetic innervation of pupillary dilation during sustained processing Int. J. Psychophysiol., 52 (1) (2004), pp. 77-86 View PDFView articleView in ScopusGoogle ScholarTakarada...
Cardiography supports the simultaneous examination of both ANS branches via measures of pre-ejection period (PEP) and respiratory sinus arrhyth-mia (RSA) as indicators of sympathetic and parasympathetic activity, respectively. However, despite their heavily intertwined functions, research examining autonomic...
The nasolacrimal duct has been shown to have a vascular plexus of veins (cavernous tissue) similar to the venous sinuses of the nasal epithelium, and congestion of this plexus causes obstruction of the duct.41 The nasolacrimal cavernous tissue is innervated by parasympathetic and sympathetic nerves...
Systemic inflammation has been proposed as a physiological process linking SEP to health, and it can emerge though several pathways7,8,9,10; the more widely held of which are stress-mediated factors and psychosocial processes involving the hypothalamic axis and the sympathetic and parasympathetic nerv...
[34,35] and sympathetic and parasympathetic brainstem nuclei [36], supporting its role in nociceptive and autonomic modulation in migraine patients. Previous positron emission tomography studies have shown hypothalamic activation during spontaneous migraine headache [37] and during the premonitory phase [...
Adrenergic bronchodilators stimulate or mimic the sympathetic nervous system, while anticholinergic bronchodilators suppress the parasympathetic nervous system. Albuterol, one of the most prescribed bronchodilators, is a short-acting adrenergic bronchodilator that acts as a receptor agonist on ß₂ recepto...
T. (2014). The symphonic structure of childhood stress reactivity: Patterns of sympathetic, parasympathetic, and adrenocortical responses to psychological challenge. Development and Psychopathology, 26(4pt1), 963–982. Article PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Rudolph, K. D., & Flynn, M. (...