Athletes can benefit from a nuanced understanding of the autonomic nervous system and the physiology of how the body actually ...

Medically reviewed by Josephine Hessert, DO Dysautonomia refers to a group of disorders involving nerves that control heart ...

In order to evaluate whether the response of a reflex vagal stimulation (oculo-cardiac reflex:OCR) is influenced by the ANS tone (sympathetic or parasympathetic dominance) and stages of alertness ...

4 Center of Physical Education and Sport, State University of Londrina (UEL), Londrina, Parana, Brazil Background The temporal and insular cortex (TC, IC) have been associated with autonomic nervous ...

This distinctive characteristic allows breathwork to serve as a direct pathway to influence autonomic nervous system functioning and brain wave patterns. As stress levels continue to rise across ...

somatic nervous system (SNS) - responsible for concious perception and voluntary movement of skeletal muscles autonomic nervous systems (ANS) - responsible for involuntary control of the body ...

At the center of your stress response is the autonomic nervous system (ANS). Autonomic means self-regulating—in other words, we don’t have to think about the functions of our autonomic nervous ...

Heart Rate Increase in rate of contraction of cardiac muscle - cardiac output increases Decrease in rate of contraction of cardiac muscle - cardiac output decreases Breathing Rate Smooth muscle of ...