Unlike the brain and spinal cord, peripheral nerve cells, whose long extensions reach the skin and internal organs, are ...

The patterns of autonomic features in PD are different from other parkinsonian disorders. Detection of autonomic dysfunction may therefore be helpful in diagnosing PD in the early or pre-motor stages, ...

Heart rate variability (HRV) has been studied as a non-invasive technique to characterize the autonomic nervous system (ANS) regulation of the heart. Non-linear methods based on chaos theory have been ...

Recently, overactivity of muscle ergoreceptors and peripheral chemoreceptors has been linked to autonomic imbalance in CHF. 26 We confirmed an increased chemosensitivity in CHF. 7 The augmented ...

Anxiety is a kind of extremely negative emotion, and long-term anxiety is the cause of many serious physical and mental diseases. In daily life, real-time and accurate detection of anxiety state is ...

The roughly 1,200 optimistic, yet timid, young men and women of the U.S. Naval Academy’s class of 2029 arrived in Annapolis for Plebe Summer.

The central (CNS) and peripheral (PNS) nervous systems work together to coordinate and regulate body functions. While the CNS, comprising the brain and spinal cord, processes information and sends ...

CAR T-cell therapy as option for diseases of the peripheral nervous system Our work shows that the targeted use of CAR T-cells is possible and of significant clinical benefit, even for severe ...

The author divides the peripheral nerves into somatic and autonomic, and the latter into sympathetic (thoracico-lumbar, to all regions of the body), enteric (plexuses of Auerbach and Meissner ...

Despite the increasing interest in cardiac autonomic nervous activity, the normal development is not fully understood. The main aim was to determine the maturation of different cardiac sympathetic‐ ...

Similarly, they also indicate that the global signal in the brain is a key component of the autonomic nervous system's arousal response.