One of the greatest rewards in practicing medicine is successfully treating and alleviating a patient’s illness – but first, we often face a challenging and complex diagnostic process when our ...

Results from a new study suggest that autonomic testing can identify neuropathy before clinical autonomic symptoms or pain are apparent. Information on patterns of neuropathic symptoms and ...

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 ...

A multi-campus research team has developed a novel device for non-invasively measuring cervical nerve activity in humans. The device has potential applications for supporting more personalized ...

Multiple system atrophy (MSA) is often difficult to distinguish from Parkinson's disease (PD) with autonomic failure, but this is an important distinction for research studies as well as for clinical ...

Investigators studied diagnostic and treatment pathways for neurogenic orthostatic hypotension in a man with fluctuating blood pressure and several comorbidities. Considering neurogenic orthostatic ...

Neurological functions following spinal cord injury have generally been assessed using the American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) impairment scale. However, the scale primarily evaluates motor ...

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 ...

Small Fiber Neuropathy (SFN) is a disorder in which the small diameter sensory myelinated (Aδ) and unmyelinated (C fiber) nerves of the peripheral nervous system are damaged. The peripheral nervous ...