Your autonomic nervous system (ANS) is the part of your central nervous system (CNS) that controls unconscious activities like breathing and digestion. This system is always working, whether or not ...

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Your autonomic nervous system controls your heart rate, blood pressure, digestion so when there is a problem—called dysautonomia—it can wreak havoc in your life. As neurologist Matthew Imperioli ...

The autonomic nervous system is known as the control center for involuntary bodily processes such as the beating of our hearts and our breathing. The fact that this part of the nervous system also has ...