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The Traditional Autonomic Narrative Misleads Yet Persists – a Critical Review and Proposed Alternative Narrative to Replace It

2025-10-22

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The dominant narrative of autonomic nervous function remains essentially that proposed by Walter B. Cannon over a hundred years ago. It emphasizes sympathetic mediation of “fight-or-flight” responses and catabolism and associates the parasympathetic system with “rest-and-digest” functions and anabolism. Dual innervation of tissues and an antagonistic relationship between the divisions is presented as the rule, wit...

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10.20944/preprints202510.1768.v1
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