Autonomic Nervous System

✍ Scribed by Ruud M. Buijs and Dick F. Swaab (Eds.)

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2013
• Leaves: 409
• Series: Handbook of Clinical Neurology 117
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 neurology
• International list of contributors, including the leading workers in the field
• Describes the advances that have occurred in clinical neurology and the neurosciences and their impact on the understanding of neurological disorders and on patient care

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Series page
Page ii

Copyright
Page iv

Handbook of Clinical Neurology 3rd Series
Page v

Foreword
Page vii
Michael J. Aminoff

Preface
Pages ix-x
Ruud M. Buijs, Dick F. Swaab

Contributors
Pages xi-xiii

Chapter 1 - The autonomic nervous system: a balancing act
Pages 1-11
Ruud M. Buijs

Chapter 2 - Differential responses of components of the autonomic nervous system
Pages 13-22
David S. Goldstein

Chapter 3 - Cotransmission in the autonomic nervous system
Pages 23-35
Geoffrey Burnstock

Chapter 4 - Sensitization of endocrine organs to anterior pituitary hormones by the autonomic nervous system
Pages 37-44
William C. Engeland

Chapter 5 - Central control of autonomic function and involvement in neurodegenerative disorders
Pages 45-57
Maria G. Cersosimo, Eduardo E. Benarroch

Chapter 6 - Interaction between cognition, emotion, and the autonomic nervous system
Pages 59-77
Hugo D. Critchley, Jessica Eccles, Sarah N. Garfinkel

Chapter 7 - Interoception and autonomic nervous system reflexes thermoregulation
Pages 79-88
Robert D. Fealey

Chapter 8 - Regulation of blood pressure by the arterial baroreflex and autonomic nervous system
Pages 89-102
Erica A. Wehrwein, Michael J. Joyner

Chapter 9 - Cooling, pain, and other feelings from the body in relation to the autonomic nervous system
Pages 103-109
A.D. Craig

Chapter 10 - The neurological organization of micturition
Pages 111-117
Jai H. Seth, Jalesh N. Panicker, Clare J. Fowler

Chapter 11 - The clinical importance of the anti-inflammatory vagovagal reflex
Pages 119-134
G. Boeckxstaens

Chapter 12 - The role of the autonomic nervous system in cardiac arrhythmias
Pages 135-145
Alex Y. Tan, Richard L. Verrier

Chapter 13 - Exercise and the autonomic nervous system
Pages 147-160
Qi Fu, Benjamin D. Levine

Chapter 14 - Autonomic control of bone formation: its clinical relevance
Pages 161-171
He Ji-Ye, Zheng Xin-Feng, Jiang Lei-Sheng

Chapter 15 - The circadian system and the balance of the autonomic nervous system
Pages 173-191
Ruud M. Buijs, Carolina Escobar, Dick F. Swaab

Chapter 16 - Autonomic nervous system control of the cerebral circulation
Pages 193-201
Peter J. Goadsby

Chapter 17 - Autonomic regulation of kidney function
Pages 203-214
Edward J. Johns

Chapter 18 - Autonomic neural control of the airways
Pages 215-228
Stuart B. Mazzone, Brendan J. Canning

Chapter 19 - Multiple system atrophy
Pages 229-241
Gregor K. Wenning, Florian Krismer

Chapter 20 - Pure autonomic failure
Pages 243-257
Emily M. Garland, William B. Hooper, David Robertson

Chapter 21 - Autonomic dysfunction in Parkinson disease
Pages 259-278
Horacio Kaufmann, David S. Goldstein

Chapter 22 - Diabetic autonomic neuropathy
Pages 279-294
Aaron I. Vinik, Tomris Erbas

Chapter 23 - Hypoglycemia-associated autonomic failure in diabetes
Pages 295-307
Philip E. Cryer

Chapter 24 - Sensory–autonomic interactions in health and disease
Pages 309-319
Peter D. Drummond

Chapter 25 - Autoimmune autonomic failure
Pages 321-327
Srikanth Muppidi, Steven Vernino

Chapter 26 - The central sympathetic nervous system in hypertension
Pages 329-335
Giuseppe Mancia, Guido Grassi

Chapter 27 - Pathology of emesis: its autonomic basis
Pages 337-352
William L. Hasler

Chapter 28 - Sympathetic microneurography
Pages 353-364
Vaughan G. Macefield

Chapter 29 - Sympathetic neuroimaging
Pages 365-370
David S. Goldstein

Chapter 30 - Skin biopsies in the assessment of the autonomic nervous system
Pages 371-378
Ningshan Wang, Christopher H. Gibbons

Chapter 31 - Heart rate variability
Pages 379-393
Iwona Cygankiewicz, Wojciech Zareba

Chapter 32 - Chronic activation of the baroreflex and the promise for hypertension therapy
Pages 395-406
Thomas E. Lohmeier, Radu Iliescu

Index
Pages 407-417