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 ...

In order for your body to work properly, your nervous system needs to be working properly. Your nervous system is responsible for helping your brain communicate with your body and helping your body ...

Your sympathetic nervous system is one of the branches of your autonomic nervous system. It controls functions under unconscious control related to “fight or flight.” Your nervous system plays a ...

Based on: The Autonomic Nervous System: Anatomy, physiology and surgical application. By James C. White, M.D., and Reginald H. Smithwick, M.D. Second edition. 8 ...

The autonomic nervous system is a complex network of cells that controls the body’s internal state. It regulates and supports many different processes, often outside of a person’s conscious awareness.

Based on: The Autonomic Nervous System. Anatomy, Physiology, and Surgical Treatment. James C. White. 386 pp. New York: The Macmillan Company. $7.00.

The nervous system of an animal coordinates the activity of the muscles, monitors the organs, constructs and also stops input from the senses, and initiates actions. The nervous system of vertebrate ...