NEUR30003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Adipose Tissue, Sympathetic Nervous System, Autonomic Ganglion
13 Aug 2018
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Autonomic nervous system: the purpose of the autonomic nervous system critical to regulate the bodily function. You cant control your sweat glands or smooth muscle and so these involuntry nervous system are things that the ans does the other alternative is the visceral motor system. Viscera describes organs but there are a range of things that are not organs which are controlled. Example of what a ans plexus will look like. Dotted lines running through the broadest perspective. Homeostasis is a word you hear alot. Keeping the body stable and having a fucntional optimal state. A concept about keeping and maintaining internal stability. Allostasis relate to keeping organs in a range of healthy. Being pregnant means adapting the breast tissue for lactating something that is not life and death but is critical for a healthy outcome can be in response to an environment or adapting for the future.
