The amount of compensatory sweating depends on the patient, the damage that the white rami communicans incurs, and the amount of cell body reorganization in the spinal cord after surgery.
Other potential complications include inadequate resection of the ganglia, gustatory sweating, pneumothorax, cardiac dysfunction, post-operative pain, and finally Horner’s syndrome secondary to resection of the stellate ganglion.
www.ubcmj.com/pdf/ubcmj_2_1_2010_24-29.pdf

After severing the cervical sympathetic trunk, the cells of the cervical sympathetic ganglion undergo transneuronic degeneration
After severing the sympathetic trunk, the cells of its origin undergo complete disintegration within a year.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1439-0442.1967.tb00255.x/abstract

Monday, February 9, 2009

sensory, limbic, and autonomic systems

The frontal lobes receive information from sensory, limbic, and autonomic systems and engage in complex cognitive functions.

The basis for prefrontal lobotomy is the apparent loss of anxiety resulting from disconnection of perceptions from normal emotional responses.
Physiology
by Roger Thies, Kirk W. Barron - 1995 - Science - 280 pages