Neural Regulation of the Heart

Knowledge of the nervous control of the heart has developed greatly in the last 15 years, and this book is planned to bring together the findings.The book describes the sympathetic and parasympathetic control of the heart, the reflexes from the chest and from the heart itself which affect the heart, the mechanisms in the brain and spinal cord which mediate these reflexes, and the consequences for cardiac function of denervation as in transplantation.Chapters begin with a succinct historical review, and the editor has kept an excellent balance.The book fills its role well.It is largely concerned with animals, but brings out the clinical relevance of findings and concludes with a chapter on the neural effects on the ECG and heart rhythm.