Pulling your hand away from a hot object, blinking because it's very bright or kicking when someone taps the tendon below your kneecap - these are all innate reflex actions. They happen rapidly, you ...

Neurologists have taken a promising step toward identifying a test that helps support the diagnosis of concussion. Their research has shown that autonomic reflex testing, which measures involuntary ...

The autonomic nervous system innervates all body organs, including the cardiovascular system. Smooth muscle in arteries, arterioles, and veins and pericytes in capillaries receive autonomic ...

IT is assumed in the therapy of spinal-cord injuries that, because the paralyses all originated from a unified injury to the cord, the symptoms must also arise from a single source. Instead, it can be ...

Q: What is autonomic dysfunction? A: There are certain body functions that require rapid, involuntary and reflexive onset of actions, and these are controlled by the autonomic nervous system (the word ...

Scientists have shown that is possible to restore immune function in spinal injured mice. People with spinal cord injury often are immune compromised, which makes them more susceptible to infections.