Sympathetic+Nervous+System

=Sympathetic Nervous System= The sympathetic nervous system controls your involuntary action of your body, like the acceleration of your heart beat, the constrictions of blood vessels, increases in blood pressure, maintains your temperature and more. This nervous system controls your sensations to heat, cold, and pain and its most important function is the fight or flight response. The sympathetic nervous system is from the spinal column toward the middle of the spinal cord. The sympathetic nervous system is only one part of another nervous system which is the autonomic nervous system. The sympathetic nervous system can be greatly damaged by diseases like Parkinson and Alzheimer's disease. You can damage your sympathetic nervous system by many ways, a few of those ways are drinking a lot of alcohol, brain injury, and birth defects. The disorders prevent the sympathetic nervous system from doing its proper job and its resulted by symptoms like seizures, loss of memory, and hypertension. In order to comprehend the sympathetic nervous system better, it’s important to know about the parasympathetic nervous system which works closely with sympathetic nervous system. The sympathetic nervous system and the parasympathetic nervous system is part of the autonomic nervous system. Both of the nervous systems work together by being the opposite of each other. While the sympathetic nervous system controls the involuntary functions, the parasympathetic calms the body and uses the rest action.

By Julia Arredondo

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