Sympathetic Nervous System Discussion

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Question:

What is the sympathetic nervous system and what are some of the effects it has on the body?

Sympathetic Nervous System

Part of your nervous system that responds to stress

Focuses on what your body needs to do

Sweeps trivial functions aside to focus all of your energy to your brain and heart and muscles to deal with the more important issue

Keeps you alive

Our bodies stress response triggered all the time

Stress response includes two kinds of chemicals (Neurotransmitters: Are made and released from neurons used to communicate with each other- or their effector organ-across a synapse. Hormones: Which secretes by your gland there are at least 50 different types of hormones in the body

Necessary for understanding how your sympathetic division ultimately works

Ach (Acetylcholine: rest of your peripheral nervous system and lots central of your