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Somatic Sources of Afferent Input as Factors in Aberrant Autonomic, Sensory and Motor Function

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The control of autonomic effectors and the influence of afferent input on them has received a great deal of attention in the last fifteen years and has been the subject of a number of reviews (Janig, 1975; Koizumi & Brooks, 1972; Sato, 1971, 1975; Sato & Schmidt, 1973; Schmidt, 1974). Many parts of the brain are involved in this control but directly or indirectly they ultimately influence the brainstem and spinal cord wherein lie the cells, the preganglionic motoneurones, whose axons pass out of the central nervous system to synapse with postganglionic neurones in the peripheral ganglia. The preganglionic motoneurone is probably the last site at which any major integration of central and peripheral input occurs. Therefore, to gain a perspective on the influence of somatic afferent inputs I think we can best start by examining the synaptic organisation of the motor nuclei that form the final common pathway out of the central nervous system. In the hope of preventing confusion and for the sake of brevity, I will confine this review to the sympathetic nervous system about which much more is known anyway.

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