A new study finds that dietary nitrate—a compound that dilates blood vessels to decrease blood pressure—may reduce overstimulation of the sympathetic nervous system that occurs with heart disease. The ...

Treatment of storming is aimed at abating the symptoms and limiting the stress response. The overall goal of medication is to dampen the sympathetic outflow or act as the parasympathetic system. Thus, ...

Hyperhidrosis (extreme, uncontrollable sweating affecting 4.8% of people) is often misunderstood, misrepresented and mismanaged, but for the past 15 years the International Hyperhidrosis Society has ...

Autonomic Dysreflexia (AD) is a potentially life-threatening condition that occurs in individuals with a spinal cord injury. Patients usually present with elevated blood pressure and bradycardia.