The Autonomic Nervous System

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This paper briefly analyses the role of the nervous system, the physiological systems involved in arousal, the physiological and psychological effects of prolonged or intense arousal and the relationship between stress and disease.

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"The CNS and PNS are further subdivided, the CNS as mentioned previously is divided into the brain the spinal cord and the PNS if further sub-divided into the somatic nervous system and autonomic nervous system. The somatic nervous system is responsible our voluntary actions through our skeletal muscles whilst the autonomic nervous system is responsible for involuntary functions including internal organs, muscles and glands such as heart rate and breathing rate, etc where levels of arousal are high due to these functions. The autonomic nervous system is further sub-divided into the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system."

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• Beverly Cribb, Heather Gridley, Christine McKersie Gerard Kennedy, Nadija Anin, Jenifer Rice (2004), Essential VCE, Psychology Units 3 & 4, Cambridge
• Peter Milesi and Lisa Vainer (2005), VCE psychology Unit 3, Psych notes, A+ Publishing
• Van Ierel, Bradley, Clarke, Coon, Houlhan, Korner, Montalto, Rossborough, Stone, (2005), Nelson Psychology VCE Units 3 & 4, Thomas Nelson

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