Your autonomic nervous system (ANS) is the part of your central nervous system (CNS) that controls unconscious activities like breathing and digestion. This system is always working, whether or not ...

Q: What is autonomic dysfunction? A: There are certain body functions that require rapid, involuntary and reflexive onset of actions, and these are controlled by the autonomic nervous system (the word ...

The autonomic nervous system is known as the control center for involuntary bodily processes such as the beating of our hearts and our breathing. The fact that this part of the nervous system also has ...

Melissa Cortez, DO, is a neurologist who has specialized expertise in neurological diseases affecting the autonomic nervous system (autonomic neurology), as well as multiple sclerosis (MS). She is ...

Multiple system atrophy (MSA) refers to a group of progressive neurodegenerative disorders that affects the basal ganglia and the motor system (parkinsonism), autonomic nervous system (dysautonomia ...

MONSON -- Sixteen-year-old Emily Hedspeth was a healthy girl, just starting her sophomore year at Monson High School, when she began to show symptoms of an infection. That infection, which hit in ...

Late in pregnancy, the human body carefully prepares fetuses for the rigors of life outside the protection of the womb. Levels of cortisol, a stress hormone, ramp up and spike during labor.

This international study, from investigators in Germany and Austria, looked at the effect sacubitril/valsartan can have among patients who have heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) and ...

[Asia Economy Reporter Myunghwan Lee] Domestic medical professionals have proposed a testing method that increases the diagnostic rate of orthostatic hypotension. Korea University Anam Hospital ...