autonomic

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This is why the onset of Parkinson's often entails autonomic dysfunction — which means involuntary processes like heart rate, blood pressure, respiration, etc. are compromised.

From Salon

With momentum, political will and multisector funding, we could explore multiple potential pathways of disease at once, including autonomic nervous system damage, immune scarring, viral persistence and coagulation activation.

From Scientific American

“It seems that practicing some control over your respiration is a kind of entry into one way of controlling your autonomic activity.”

From Washington Post

A seizure is an episode of abnormal brain activity, and the temporal lobe is in close communication with the autonomic nervous system, which can trigger sweating.

From New York Times

It’s an approach based on Estes’ theory of sensory resonance, which posits that the body’s autonomic nervous system can essentially be “reset” by synchronizing all of the major sensory mechanisms together — visual, aural and vibrational.

From Los Angeles Times