How Does the Brain Control the Autonomic Nervous System?
Learn how the forebrain, hypothalamus, brainstem, spinal cord, and visceral feedback coordinate sympathetic, parasympathetic, and enteric functions.
Learn how the forebrain, hypothalamus, brainstem, spinal cord, and visceral feedback coordinate sympathetic, parasympathetic, and enteric functions.
The parasympathetic nervous system handles the body’s routine maintenance. It digests food, slows the heart, produces saliva and tears, empties the bladder, and adjusts the eyes for close-up vision, all without you having to think about it. It is one of the divisions of the autonomic nervous system, the part of the nervous system that…