Ten years of research on yoga as a stress-reducing activity provides a clear answer: A little effort offers real health ...

The sympathetic, parasympathetic, and enteric nervous system work together to balance out your body’s functions. Usually, the parasympathetic nervous system hormones promote relaxation ...

Excessive sweating in the hands, known as palmar hyperhidrosis, can be a real nuisance. Here's what the experts say about ...

So, what caused this day-night rhythm in the heart? “Well, one thing is this local circadian clock, but what this paper shows is that there's something else, and that's the sympathetic nervous system, ...

We are in a constant state of high sympathetic tone. Your sympathetic nervous system is the fight, flight, or freeze system. It fires up when there’s a tiger in the ...

Following acute multiple trauma, hypothalamic stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system and adrenal glands causes an increase in circulating corticoids and catecholamines, or a stress response.

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 ...