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Autonomic Nervous System : Basic and Clinical Aspects / by Daniel Pedro Cardinali.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cardinali, Daniel P., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine.
- Human physiology.
- Neurosciences.
- Neurology.
- Medicine & Public Health.
- Human Physiology.
- Local Subjects:
- Medicine & Public Health.
- Neurology.
- Human Physiology.
- Neurosciences.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (XIV, 385 pages 198 illustrations in color)
- Contained In:
- Springer eBooks
- Place of Publication:
- Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
- System Details:
- text file PDF
- Summary:
- 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 that allow the body proper response to changes in the environment (reactive homeostasis), but also temporal mechanisms that allow the body to predict the most likely timing of environmental stimuli (predictive homeostasis based on biological rhythms). This book discusses the ANS from both an enlarged and a timed perspective. First, it presents how the organization of the ANS is hierarchical into different levels. Following that, the book discusses how the ANS changes functionally in the three-body configurations (wakefulness, slow sleep, rapid eye movement sleep) found in a 24-hour cycle. Finally, the most important clinical implications of this enlarged and timed vision of ANS will be discussed. Autonomic Nervous System - Basic and Clinical Aspects is a comprehensive text intended for medical students and health professionals who are interested in a deeper approach to this important part of the nervous system. It provides a detailed and complete understanding of the neuroscience behind the ANS, allowing a proper clinical applicability of this knowledge.
- 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.
- Other Format:
- Printed edition:
- ISBN:
- 9783319575711
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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