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 ...

Older men with chronic kidney disease (CKD) show higher resting muscle sympathetic nerve activity, but not vascular stiffness, compared with older women, offering clues to the underlying reasons why ...

When a person is at rest, meditating or reading a book, the parasympathetic nervous system is at work. Also known as the "rest and digest" system, the parasympathetic nervous system is responsible for ...