Autonomic nervous system analysis in the Orthostatic Test

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Congcong Sun ◽  
Weidong Wang ◽  
Zhengbo Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Nervous System ◽  
Autonomic Nervous System ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
Orthostatic Test ◽  
Autonomic Nervous

scholarly journals Integrating synapse, muscle contraction, and autonomic nervous system game: effect on learning and evaluation of students’ opinions

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lais Tono Cardozo ◽  
Amicio Pina Castro ◽  
Alexsandro Ferreira Guimarães ◽  
Lucila Ludmila Paula Gutierrez ◽  
Luís Henrique Montrezor ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nervous System ◽  
Autonomic Nervous System ◽  
Muscle Contraction ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
Educational Game ◽  
Learning Assessment ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Autonomic Nervous ◽  
The Mean

This work describes the educational game “Integrating Synapse, Muscle Contraction, and Autonomic Nervous System,” which was developed to assist students in understanding and integrating concepts related to the physiology of synapses, muscle contraction, and the autonomic nervous system. Analysis was made of the effect of the game on learning and the students’ opinions about it. Dentistry students were divided into control and game groups. They attended lectures about the topics, after which the control group students were submitted to a test, whereas the game group performed the game activity before undertaking the test. The mean score was significantly higher for the game group, compared with the control group ( P < 0.05). Pharmacy students also attended lectures about these topics; in the next class, the students performed a pretest and the activity with the educational game. After the game, a posttest was applied. The mean scores were significantly higher for the posttest than for the pretest ( P < 0.05). Students of medicine attended the lectures and performed the activity with the educational game, without the learning assessment. All of the students answered a question, using a 5-point Likert-type scale, concerning whether they thought the activity with the game was useful for learning. The mean scores obtained by the dentistry, pharmacy, and medicine students were 4.7 ± 0.6, 4.9 ± 0.3, and 4.3 ± 0.1, respectively. The educational game increased the learning of the undergraduate students, in agreement with their opinions of the strategy.

Detailed Autonomic Nervous System Analysis of Microcurrent Point Stimulation Applied to Battlefield Acupuncture Protocol

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelly Armstrong ◽  
Raman Gokal ◽  
Joe Durant ◽  
Todd Todorsky ◽  
Antoine Chevalier ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nervous System ◽  
Autonomic Nervous System ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
Autonomic Nervous

A New Approach for ECG Recording in Rats: An Autonomic Nervous System Analysis

2020 ◽  
pp. 91-98
Author(s):  
Raphael Santos do Nascimento ◽  
Fernando da Silva Fiorin ◽  
Adair Roberto Soares Santos ◽  
Luiz Fernando Freire Royes ◽  
Jefferson Luiz Brum Marques
Keyword(s):  
Nervous System ◽  
Autonomic Nervous System ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Autonomic Nervous

scholarly journals Sensitivity of the Baroreceptors and the State of the Autonomic Nervous System in Patients with Chronic Impairment of Consciousness Due to Severe Brain Damage

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 61-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. N. Dorogovtsev ◽  
D. S. Yankevich ◽  
A. L. Parfenov ◽  
A. E. Skvortsov ◽  
A. V. Kotelnikova
Keyword(s):  
Nervous System ◽  
Autonomic Nervous System ◽  
Orthostatic Hypotension ◽  
Brain Damage ◽  
Main Trend ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome ◽  
Orthostatic Test ◽  
Autonomic Nervous ◽  
Group 1

Purpose of the study: to examine sensibility of baroreceptors and the autonomic nervous in the passive orthostatic test in patients with chronic impairment of consciousness due to severe brain damage and determine their role in the rehabilitation process.Materials and methods. The study included 30 patients with long-term impairment of consciousness due to severe brain damage (group 1), 10 of them being in the vegetative state (VS) and 20 being in the minimally conscious state (MCS). Craniocerebral trauma was the main cause of severe damage in that group (53% of patients). The comparison group included 24 patients with focal neurological symptoms caused predominantly — 79.2% of cases — by cerebrovascular disorders (group 2). The control group (group 3) consisted of 22 healthy volunteers of a comparable age. All measurements were done with the help of a Task Force Monitor 1030i (CNSystem, Austria) in the course of passive orthostatic test at 0°–30°–60°–0°. Changes in the power of low-frequency (LFS) and highfrequency spectrum (HFS) of heart rate variability and baroreceptors sensibility (BRS) were analyzed. Statistical analysis was carried out using Statistica-10 software. Significance of inter-group differences on unrelated samples was determined by the Mann–Whitney U-test. Differences between groups were considered significant at P 0.05.Results. Maximal background values of BRS were found in the control group. In group 1 and 2 patients, considerable decrease of that index was noted, which was proportional to the brain damage severity. Similar dynamics was observed for the indices of autonomic nervous system sensibility (LFS and HFS). The main trend of orthostatic changes of BRS, LFS, and HFS was characterized by progressive decrease of the indices with increase of the patients’ angle of tilting and their return to the baseline level after the patients were put back into the horizontal position. 4 patients of group 1 (14%) displayed signs of orthostatic disorders upon tilting to 30°: in 3 cases, orthostatic hypotension was observed, and in one case the postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) was diagnosed. Those patients differed by lower BRS and higher sympathetic system activity (LFS) vs. the same indices of other patients in that group.Conclusion. Patients with chronic impairment of consciousness during the post-comatose period after a severe brain damage display a significant decrease of baroreceptors sensibility and autonomic nervous system disorders manifesting in significantly lower activity of the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems. The prominence of such disorders is associated with brain damage severity. Their risk of developing orthostatic hypotension during tilting towards a vertical position is higher in patients who have lower baroreceptors sensibility, and this should be taken into account beginning the process of their verticalization.

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