While the central nervous system comprises neurons in the brain and spinal cord, the sympathetic, or peripheral, autonomic nervous system consists of neurons in ganglia (groups or clusters ...

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The sympathetic nervous system directs blood to certain parts ... This compartmentalization of autonomic motor neurons provides the neuroanatomical basis for selective changes of the sympatho ...

Dysfunction within the central nervous system contributes to the sympathetic activation in these cardiovascular diseases. Accumulating evidence indicates that autonomic neurons in the hypothalamic ...

VZV causes chickenpox (varicella), after which the virus becomes latent in cranial nerve, dorsal root and autonomic nervous system ganglia along the entire neuraxis. Decades later, a declining VZV ...