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Epilogue - The Autonomic Nervous System in Future Research: Some Personal Views

Wilfrid Jänig, Elspeth M. McLachlan

from Part V - The Centers of Homeostasis in the Mesencephalon and Hypothalamus and Their Telencephalic Control

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 July 2022

Wilfrid Jänig
Wilfrid Jänig
Affiliation:
Christian-Albrechts Universität zu Kiel, Germany
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Summary

In the field of the autonomic nervous system, the most exciting future research developments are likely to be, on the one hand, in the subcellular world and, on the other hand, in the world of the brain’s control of the body’s multicellular machines by way of individual neural programs into a unity of somatomotor, autonomic and neuroendocrine behavior. Today we would rephrase the title of Cannon’s book The Wisdom of the Body to The Wisdom of the Brain in Regulating the Body. It is now clear that a dichotomous concept of the autonomic nervous system divided into sympathetic and parasympathetic and being antagonistically organized, could never explain how the brain controls the body’s organs and tissues.

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The Integrative Action of the Autonomic Nervous System
Neurobiology of Homeostasis
 , pp. 397 - 402
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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