Clinical Assessment of the Autonomic Nervous System

Part I. Sympathetic Microneurography

1. Introduction to Sympathetic Microneurography
Tadaaki Mano

2. Muscle Sympathetic Nerve Activity in Neurological Disorders
Kazumasa Shindo

3. Muscle Sympathetic Nerve Activity and Cardiovascular Disease
Shuji Joho

4. Skin Sympathetic Nerve Activity and Thermoregulatory Control in Humans
Satoshi Iwase, Naoki Nishimura, Yuko Kuwahara, Junichi Sugenoya

5. Muscle Sympathetic Nerve Activity and Syncope
Satoshi Iwase, Naoki Nishimura, Tadaaki Mano

6. Single Fiber Analysis of Muscle Sympathetic Nerve Activity
Hisayoshi Murai, Shuichi Kaneko, Masayuki Takamura

Part II. Heart Rate Variability (HRV)

7. Introduction to Heart Rate Variability
Junichiro Hayano

8. Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia and Entraining Heartbeats with Cheyne-Stokes Respiration: Cardiopulmonary Works to Be Minimal by Synchronizing Heartbeats with Breathing
Fumihiko Yasuma, Junichiro Hayano

9. Heart Rate Variability (HRV) and Sympathetic Nerve Activity
Ken Kiyono, Junichiro Hayano, Eiichi Watanabe, Yoshiharu Yamamoto

10. Heart Rate Variability and Cardiac Diseases
Eiichi Watanabe, Ken Kiyono, Yoshiharu Yamamoto, Junichiro Hayano

11. Heart Rate Variability and Neurological Disorders
Hisayoshi Oka

Part III. Cardiac MIBG Scintigraphy

12. An Introduction to MIBG Cardiac Scintigraphy
Satoshi Orimo

13. Noradrenaline and
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I-Meta-Iodobenzylguanidine Kinetics in the Sympathetic Nervous System
Tomohiko Nakamura, Gen Sobue

14. Technical Considerations for MIBG Cardiac Scintigraphy
Hirohisa Watanabe, Gen Sobue

15. Findings of 123I-MIBG Cardiac Scintigraphy: Parkinson’s Disease and Related Disorders and Others (RBD, Cardiac Diseases, DM, etc.)
Makiko Yogo, Masahiko Suzuki

16. Findings of MIBG Cardiac Scintigraphy: Dementia with Lewy Bodies and Related Dementia
Hirohisa Watanabe, Gen Sobue

17. Physiological Background of Reduced Cardiac 123I-Meta-Iodobenzylguanidine Uptake
Tomohiko Nakamura, Gen Sobue

18. Pathological Background of Reduced Cardiac MIBG Uptake
Satoshi Orimo

19. Clinical Implications of Reduced Cardiac MIBG Uptake
Satoshi Orimo

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