Healthcare workers (HCWs) actively involved in patient care at tertiary care hospitals face significant stress and workload, ...

The autonomic nervous system (ANS) plays a major role in maintaining homeostasis through key adaptive responses to stress, including severe infections and sepsis. The ANS-mediated processes most ...

Coaches achieve this not through words but through the messages conveyed by the tone of their voices, facial expressions, and body language emanating from their autonomic state. Ultimately ...

Background: Cranial autonomic symptoms (CAS) are distinguishing features of trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias, of which cluster headache (CH) is the most common, but they can occur in patients with ...

The aim of this study, therefore, was to assess the effects of hyperventilation on colonic tone and motility and on cardiovascular autonomic activity, and to discover if hypocapnia was critical to ...

Studies over the decades have provided a better understanding of cardiac autonomic innervation and revealed overwhelming evidence of the relationship between autonomic tone and VAs. A high sympathetic ...

Figure 2. Cyclic promotion of atrial fibrillation (AF) through autonomic stimulation. Once the atrium begins to fibrillate, rapid atrial rates promote increased sympathetic nerve sprouting which ...

Figure 1. Cause of death in prevalent dialysis patients in the United States, 2005 to 2007. 1 AMI indicates acute myocardial infarction; CHF, congestive heart failure; CVA, cerebrovascular accident.