Autonomic Nervous System in Clinical Practice

The Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) modulates and adjusts the function of all organs to permanently changing external and internal conditions, such as wakefulness or sleep, physical, mental, or psychological effort and challenge, and it assures adequate interaction between organs and physiological systems. ANS dysfunction can be unveiled in almost all neurological and uncounted other diseases and often contributes to significantly deteriorating the patient’s quality of life and even life expectancy. However, there is rather little awareness of and knowledge about the ANS and its prominent role in daily medical and particularly neurological work. Therefore, the collections strives to: increase insights and interest in the ANS, convey approaches towards the diagnosis and differentiation of autonomic diseases and discuss therapeutic options and developments. The Topical Collection also intends to show the close links between autonomic dysfunction and wide-spread diseases such as multiple sclerosis, stroke, epilepsy, movement disorders, traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries, inflammatory diseases, metabolic and endocrine diseases such as diabetes mellitus, rare hereditary diseases, and many others, including the acute and long term complications of the current Covid-19 pandemic; elucidate effects of novel treatment regimens for specific diseases such as multiple sclerosis or headache and potential effects on the autonomic nervous system. Unsolicited submissions are welcome. Authors who wish to contribute the collection should submit a short outline for their research to Patrizia Bianchi (patrizia.bianchi@springer.com) along with full list of authors. Paper formats which may be considered for this collection include: original research articles and review articles, as well as interesting case reports in the format of letters to the editor.