autonomic
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It may also have potential as a supportive, non-pharmacological approach in clinical settings, particularly for conditions such as anxiety disorders or depression, which can involve disrupted autonomic regulation and altered responses to reward.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
One of the proteins helps activate a range of neuropeptides involved in stress responses, anxiety, vascular tone, and autonomic nervous system activity.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 2, 2026
The 44-year-old Los Angeles resident says the peptides have helped with myriad symptoms she has long struggled with due to a disorder of her autonomic nervous system.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026
It's part of the autonomic nervous system, which controls things we don't think about, like breathing, heart rate and digestion.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2025
Given the capacity to control autonomic functions, modulate brain waves, run cells, why shouldn’t it be possible to employ exactly the same technology to go in precisely the opposite direction?
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
