Describes newly developed methods of assessing the autonomic nervous system

Provides up-to-date information on microneurography, heart rate variability, and MIBG scintigraphy

Useful resource for neurologists and researchers of clinical neurophysiology

PART I: Sympathetic Microneurography.-

1 Introduction to Sympathetic Microneurography.-

2 Muscle Sympathetic Nerve Activity in Neurological Disorders.-

3 Muscle Sympathetic Nerve Activity and Cardiovascular Diseases.-

4 Skin sympathetic nerve activity and thermoregulatory control in humans.-

5 Muscle Sympathetic Nerve Activity and Syncope.-

6 Single Fiber Analysis of Muscle Sympathetic Nerve Activity.-

PART II: Heart Rate Variability (HRV).-

7 Introduction to Heart Rate Variability.-

8 Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia and Entraining Heartbeats with Cheyne-Stokes Respiration - Cardiopulmonary Works to be Minimal by Synchronizing Heartbeats with Breathing.-

9 Heart RateVariability and Sympathetic Nerve Activity.-

10 Heart Rate Variability and Cardiac Diseases.-

11 Heart-rate Variability and Neurological Disorders.-

PART III: Cardiac MIBG Scintigraphy.-

12 An introduction to MIBG cardiac scintigraphy.-

13 Noradrenaline and 123I-meta-iodobenzylguanidine Kinetics in the Sympathetic Nervous System.-

14 Technical Considerations for MIBG Cardiac Scintigraphy.-

15 Findings of 123I-MIBG cardiac scintigraphy : Parkinson's disease and related disorders, and others. (RBD, cardiac diseases, DM, etc).-

16 Findings of MIBG Cardiac Scintigraphy: Dementia with Lewy Bodies and Related Dementia.-

17 Physiological Background of Reduced Cardiac 123I-metaiodobenzylguanidine Uptake.-

18 Pathological background of reduced cardiac MIBG uptake.-

19 Clinical Implication of Reduced Cardiac MIBG Uptake.