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.
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Table of Contents
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
Authors
Ruud M. Buijs Instituto de Investigaciones Biomedicas, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico D.F.. Dr. Ruud M. Buijs is head of the Physiology department of the I.I.Biomedicas at the UNAM university and leader of the group Hypothalamic Integration Mechanisms. In that group, the scientists study how the brain and body interact with each other, and hereby the attention is focussed on autonomic and hormonal regulation of body functions under the influence of the biological clock of the brain. Dick F. Swaab Netherlands Institute for Brain Research, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.Dick Swaab (1944) earned his medical and doctoral degrees at the University of Amsterdam, where he became involved in brain research during his third year of medical school. He was Director of the Netherlands Institute for Brain Research from 1978 to 2005. Since 1979 he is Professor of Neurobiology at the Medical Faculty, University of Amsterdam.
In 1985, Dr. Swaab founded the Netherlands Brain Bank (NBB) to serve as a source of clinically and neuropathologically well-documented research tissue. Since its founding, the Brain Bank has provided samples from more than 4,000 autopsies to 500 research groups in 25 countries. He was director of the NBB until 2005.
He is Leader Research team Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Neth. Inst for Neuroscience, an institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). Swaab is also appointed for 2011-2017 Chao Kuang Piu Chair of Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P.R. China.
His major research interests focus on, sexual differentiation of the human brain in relation to gender identity and sexual orientation, aging of the brain, Alzheimer's disease, the neurobiological basis of depression, suicide and eating disorders. He has published over 540 papers in SCI journals, authored more than 200 chapters in books, and edited more than 60 books. Swaab mentored 84 PhD students from which 16 are now full professor. He is "Companion in the Order of the Dutch Lion, bestowed by her Royal Majesty Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands. In 2008 Swaab obtained the Academy medal for his role in national and international neuroscience.
Dick Swaab is author of the 2 volume monograph The Human Hypothalamus that appeared in the Handbook of Clinical Neurology series, Elsevier, Amsterdam (1000 pp) and the Dutch best seller We are our Brains (450.000 copies sold), that is translated in 14 languages. A children's version of the book (You are your brains) has also appeared in Dutch in 2013 and Russian (2014). Swaab's H-factor is 76.
