Download or read book Central Regulation of Autonomic Functions written by Ida J. Llewellyn-Smith and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Central autonomic circuits in the brain and spinal cord are essential to vertebrate life because they are involved in controlling all basic bodily functions, including blood pressure, feeding, body temperature regulation voiding and reproduction. This wide-ranging text emphasizes the extraordinary advances that have been made over the last 20 years in understanding how the central nervous system controls autonomic functions.