Autonomic Nervous System: Basic and Clinical Aspects

 

Description:

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.

 

Table of contents (8 chapters):

 

The Enlarged Autonomic Nervous System

Pages 1-17

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The Timed Autonomic Nervous System

Pages 19-56

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First Level: Peripheral Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Nervous System

Pages 57-111

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Second Level: The Brainstem

Pages 113-173

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Third Level: The Hypothalamus

Pages 175-244

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Fourth Level: The Limbic System

Pages 245-285

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Clinical Implications of the Enlarged Autonomic Nervous System

Pages 287-312

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Clinical Implications of the Timed Autonomic Nervous System

Pages 313-373

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