{"id":7332,"date":"2019-05-22T15:55:44","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/autonomic_nervous_system_-ans\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:55:44","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:55:44","slug":"autonomic_nervous_system_-ans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/autonomic_nervous_system_-ans\/","title":{"rendered":"Autonomic nervous system (ANS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A self-regulating division of the nervous system that controls involuntary functions having to do with the cardiovascular, digestive, reproductive and respiratory systems of the body. &nbsp;It is sub-divided into the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems. &nbsp;The origin of the term &#8216;autonomic nervous system&#8217; is credited to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibro.info\/Pub\/Pub_Main_Display.asp?LC_Docs_ID=2572\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.ibro.info\/Pub\/Pub_Main_Display.asp?LC_Docs_ID=2572?target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Newport Langley<\/a> (1852-1925) who coined it in 1898 and &#8216;parasympathetic nervous system&#8217; in 1905.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"adrenal_cortex\">Adrenal cortex<\/a>, <a href=\"adrenal_glands\">Adrenal glands<\/a>, <a href=\"central_nervous_system_-cns-\">Central nervous system (CNS)<\/a>, <a href=\"epinephrine_-or_adrenaline-\">Epinephrine (or adrenaline)<\/a>, <a href=\"medulla_oblongata\">Medulla oblongata<\/a>, <a href=\"motoneuron\">Motoneuron<\/a>, <a href=\"nicotine\">Nicotine<\/a>, Parasympathetic nervous system, <a href=\"peripheral_nervous_system\">Peripheral nervous system<\/a>, <a href=\"reflex\">Reflex<\/a>, Somatic nervous system, Sympathetic nervous system (SNS)<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A self-regulating division of the nervous system that controls involuntary functions having to do with the cardiovascular, digestive, reproductive and respiratory systems of the body. &nbsp;It is sub-divided into the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems. &nbsp;The origin of the term &#8216;autonomic nervous system&#8217; is credited to John Newport Langley (1852-1925) who coined it in 1898 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/autonomic_nervous_system_-ans\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Autonomic nervous system (ANS)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}