Autonomic Nervous System Pharmacology

Notes

In this video, I'm going to be talking about the autonomic nervous system with a special emphasis on autonomic nervous system pharmarmacology. That said, although the focus of this video is going to be on all of the different drugs that you need to know regarding the autonomic nervous system, I'm still going to touch on things like the different types of receptors and just general physiology in the autonomic nervous system to help you establish the background information that's needed to really master the pharmarmacology. Now, let's get into today's video. And I want to sort of paint an overview of the autonomic nervous system before we start talking about nitty-gritty details. The autonomic nervous system is broken down into two components. You've got the sympathetic nervous system and the parasympathetic nervous system. Now, classically, you might have heard of these as referred to fight orflight and rest and digest. So the sympathetic nervous system is what kicks in when your body needs to activate itself in the presence of extreme stress. And the the example you can think about is this is the constellation of findings and symptoms that you'll see if you need to decide to fight ...