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Anatomy and Physiology of the Autonomic Nervous System

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Title Walsh and Hoyt's Clinical Neuro-Ophthalmology
Subject Neurology; Ophthalmology; Eye Diseases
Description Walsh and Hoyt's Clinical Neuro-Ophthalmology
Date 2005
Language eng
Format application/pdf
Type Text
Collection Neuro-Ophthalmology Virtual Education Library: Walsh and Hoyt Textbook Collection: https://novel.utah.edu/collection/walsh-and-hoyt/
Holding Institution Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah
Rights Management North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Association (NANOS), Copyright 2011. For further information regarding the rights to this collection, please visit http://library.med.utah.edu/NOVEL/about/copyright
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Setname ehsl_novel_wht
ID 190107
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6rj4hsw

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Identifier CH14_649-714
Title Anatomy and Physiology of the Autonomic Nervous System
Alternative Title Section 2: Chapter 14
Creator Randy H. Kardon, MD, PhD, Director of Neuro-Ophthalmology Services, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Iowa
Affiliation University of Iowa College of Medicine and University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics and Veterans Administration
Subject Autonomic Nervous System; Anatomy; Physiology
Description "Body functions that are regulated independently of voluntary activity using reflex mechanisms involving afferent nerve input, efferent nerve output, and central integrating nerve pathways are part of the autonomic nervous system."
Abstract "Body functions that are regulated independently of voluntary activity using reflex mechanisms involving afferent nerve input, efferent nerve output, and central integrating nerve pathways are part of the autonomic nervous system (1). Although the activity of this system is essentially autonomous, at higher levels of the central nervous system (CNS) voluntary modulation is still possible. As early as 1875, Hughlings Jackson offered clinical, physiologic, and experimental evidence to show that the autonomic nervous system, like the somatic nervous system, is integrated at all levels of nervous activity and that autonomic and somatic activities are closely correlated. Segmental autonomic reflexes are coordinated in the spinal cord, but regulation of functions such as respiration, blood pressure, swallowing, and pupillary movement requires suprasegmental integration higher in the brain stem. The autonomic subsystems in the brain stem are, in turn, influenced by more complicated integrating systems in the hypothalamus. Finally, certain cortical areas, particularly the frontal cortex, govern many of the activities of the hypothalamus (2). Thus, coordination and integration of somatic and autonomic activities from the highest level of neurologic activity in cortex down to the spinal cord and peripheral nervous system (PNS) are used to attain fundamental adjustments of the organism to its environment."
Language eng
Format application/pdf
Type Text
Publication Type Book chapter
Rights Management North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Association (NANOS), Copyright 2011. For further information regarding the rights to this collection, please visit http://library.med.utah.edu/NOVEL/about/copyright
Extent 2.5 MB
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ID 190047
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6rj4hsw/190047
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