Autonomic Nervous System: Handbook of Clinical Neurology (Series editors: Aminoff, Boller, Swaab)

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 neurologyInternational list of contributors, including the leading workers in the fieldDescribes the advances that have occurred in clinical neurology and the neurosciences and their impact on the understanding of neurological disorders and on patient care INDICE: 1. The autonomic nervous system; what do we miss?  2. Differential Responses of Components of the Autonomic Nervous System  3. Cotransmission in the autonomic nervous system  4. Sensitization of endocrine organs to anterior pituitary hormones by the autonomic nervous system  5. Central Control of Autonomic Function and Involvement in Neurodegenerative Disorders  6. Interaction between cognition, emotion and the autonomic nervous system  7. Interoception and ANS Reflexes Thermoregulation  8. Regulation of blood pressure by the arterial baroreflex and autonomic nervous system  9. Cooling, pain and other feelings from the body in relation to the autonomic nervous system  10. The Neurological Organization of Micturition  11. The clinical importance of the anti-inflammatory vago-vagal reflex  12. The Role of the Autonomic Nervous System in Cardiac Arrhythmias  13. Exercise and the Autonomic Nervous System  14. Autonomic control of bone formation: its clinical relevance  15. The circadian system and the balance of the autonomic nervous system  16. Autonomic Nervous System Control of the Cerebral Circulation  17. Autonomic Regulation of Kidney Function  18. Autonomic Neural Control of the Airways  19. Multiple system atrophy  20. Pure Autonomic Failure  21. Autonomic Dysfunction in Parkinson Disease  22. Diabetic Autonomic Neuropathy  23. Hypoglycemia-Associated Autonomic Failure in Diabetes  24. Sensory-autonomic interactions in health and disease  25. Autoimmune Autonomic Failure  26. The central sympathetic nervous system in hypertension  27. Pathology of emesis: its autonomic basis  28. Sympathetic Microneurography  29. Sympathetic Neuroimaging  30. Skin biopsies in the assessment of the autonomic nervous system  31. Heart Rate Variability  32. Chronic Activation of the Baroreflex and the Promise for Hypertension Therapy

• ISBN: 978-0-444-53491-0
• Editorial: Elsevier
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 464
• Fecha Publicación: 19/11/2013
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés