autonomic

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The 44-year-old Los Angeles resident says the peptides have helped with myriad symptoms she has long struggled with due to a disorder of her autonomic nervous system.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026

Neuroscientists call such coordinated movement and autonomic activity “interpersonal synchrony.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026

Some treatments focus on particular complications such as clotting, autonomic nervous system problems, and immune imbalance.

From Science Daily • Jan. 8, 2026

When you see green trees, smell pine and hear gentle rustling leaves or the sound of birdsong, your autonomic nervous system - a network of nerves controlling unconscious processes - responds instantly.

From BBC • Oct. 9, 2025

It is the most compulsively collective, genetically programmed, species-specific, and autonomic of all the things we do, and we are infallible at it.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas