ETS is a very effective way to treat hyperhidrosis and FB in the vast majority of the cases, but a small group of patients have devastating effects. Unfortunately, we do not know who these patients are before we operate.
Extensive surgery or burning causes nerve scaring, which may behave like epilepsy of the autonomous nervous system and cause the well known devastating side effects.
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Sunday, November 1, 2009
sympathectomy may retard aversive conditioning
"Researchers have examined the role of autonomic feedback in emotional experience using the heartbeat paradigm. Katkin at al. (1982) found that some normal subjects can accurately detect their heartbeats, and it was those individuals who had a stronger emotional response to negative slides as determined by self-report (Hantas et al., 1982). Further support for the importance of autonomic feedback comes from observations. Experiments in animals demonstrate that sympathectomy may retard aversive conditioning (DiGusto and King, 1972), most likely because sympathectomy reduces fear.
In order for a feedback to occur, there must be a means for the viscera and autonomic nervous system to become activated.
Oxford University Press
In order for a feedback to occur, there must be a means for the viscera and autonomic nervous system to become activated.
Clinical neuropsychology
By Kenneth M. Heilman, Edward ValensteinOxford University Press
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