Your autonomic nervous system controls your heart rate, blood pressure, digestion so when there is a problem—called dysautonomia—it can wreak havoc in your life. As neurologist Matthew Imperioli ...

The autonomic nervous system controls involuntary body functions, such as heartbeat, blood flow, breathing, and digestion. With three chief components—the sympathetic, parasympathetic, and enteric ...

Your autonomic nervous system (ANS) is the part of your central nervous system (CNS) that controls unconscious activities like breathing and digestion. This system is always working, whether or not ...

Following on from the COVID-19 pandemic is another worldwide public health challenge that is referred to variously as long COVID, post-COVID syndrome or post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection ...

In order for your body to work properly, your nervous system needs to be working properly. Your nervous system is responsible for helping your brain communicate with your body and helping your body ...

Your autonomic nervous system helps regulate emotional balance, but chronic stress or trauma can trigger an overactive fight-or-flight response. Nervous system dysregulation refers to a condition in ...

Arterial stiffening is caused by the degradation of elastic fibers replaced by fibrosis, accumulation of lipids, migration of inflammatory cells, and proliferation of the smooth muscle cells of the ...

Pure autonomic failure may serve as a prodromal manifestation of Parkinson disease, Lewy body dementia, and multiple system atrophy.

The autonomic nervous system is known as the control center for involuntary bodily processes such as the beating of our hearts and our breathing. The fact that this part of the nervous system also has ...

A peer-reviewed study in Brain Medicine reveals that parasympathetic and sympathetic imbalances, long overlooked in psychiatric practice, may account for depressive symptoms in patients who never ...