Role of the Cerebral Cortex in Autonomic Function

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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>As early as 1869, the British neurologist John Hugh lings Jackson (cited in Hoff et al., 1963), noting the autonomic responses that accompanied motor seizures in epileptic patients, proposed that within the convolutions of the cerebrum were represented not only the voluntary movements of the whole body but also the involuntary movements of the blood vessels and viscera. Jackson’s interpretation was prescient in more ways than one: in addition to being the first modern neuroscientist to suggest a cortical visceral representation, his observations under scored the difficulties in distinguishing direct autonomic responses from reflex changes that accompany somatic motor activity, pain, and generalized epileptic discharge.</jats:p>

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