RT Book, Section
A1 Ropper, Allan H.
A1 Samuels, Martin A.
A1 Klein, Joshua P.
A1 Prasad, Sashank
SR Print(0)
ID 1162593301
T1 Disorders of the Autonomic Nervous System, Respiration, and Swallowing
T2 Adams and Victor's Principles of Neurology, 11e
YR 2019
FD 2019
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071842617
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1162593301
RD 2024/04/19
AB The  human  internal  environment  is  regulated  in  large  measure  by  the  integrated  activity  of  the  autonomic  nervous  system  and  endocrine  glands.  Their  visceral  and  homeostatic  functions,  essential  to  life  and  survival,  are  involuntary.  Why  the  forces  of  evolution  favored  this  separation  from  volition  is  an  interesting  question.  Claude  Bernard  expressed  this  idea  in  sardonic  terms  when  he  wrote,  “nature  thought  it  prudent  to  remove  these  important  phenomena  from  the  caprice  of  an  ignorant  will.”