Taking a look at a cross section chunk, there's also a layer of smooth muscle which has nerves of the autonomic nervous system in it.

来看一下这个横断面，这一层还有平滑肌，里面含有属于自主神经系统的神经。

When your brain senses stress, it activates your autonomic nervous system.

当你的大脑感受到压力时，它会激活你的自主神经系统。

They might also arise from a bit of conflict between our autonomous nervous system that's usually quietly keeping all that pee inside and the part of our conscious mind that's in charge of the plumbing at that moment.

它们也可能是由于我们的自主神经系统之间的一点起的，这种系统通常会安静地将所有的小便都放在里面，而此时负责管道系统的那部分大脑是有意识的。

He wrote the first textbook about the diseases connected to the autonomic nervous system.

他写了第一本于自主神经系统相疾病的教科书。

Plaques can also involve the autonomic nervous system which can lead to bowel and bladder symptoms like constipation and urinary incontinence, as well as sexual symptoms like sexual dysfunction.

硬化斑也会影响自主神经系统，导致肠道与膀胱症状（便秘和尿失禁）和性功能障碍。

The sympathetic nervous system is part of the autonomic nervous system and it helps mediate your automatic functions like breathing, heart rate, sweating, and digestion.

感神经系统是自主神经系统的一部分，它有助于调节你的自动功能，如呼吸、心率、出汗和消化。

Then from your amygdala the information moves to your hypothalamus which communicates with your autonomic nervous system and adrenal glands.

然后，信息从你的杏仁核转移到你的下丘脑，下丘脑与你的自主神经系统和肾上腺流。

Toxic metabolites also affect the autonomic nervous system regulating gastrointestinal motility, and this can causes abdominal pain, constipation, and vomiting.

毒性代谢产物也可以影响调节胃肠蠕动的自主神经系统，可以导致腹痛、便秘和呕吐。

But where these ganglia appear relate to their function, and which division of the autonomic system they're serving.

但是这些神经节出现的地方与它们的功能有，以及它们服务于自主神经系统的哪个部门。

Its effects change, depending on the situation you're in — and also which part of your autonomic system is in charge at that moment.

它的影响是变化的，这取决于你所处的环境——也取决于你自主神经系统的哪一部分在那一刻负责。

Now we don't actually have voluntary control over this particular sphincter, but the autonomic nervous system keeps it cinched up whenever you're not peeing to prevent leakage.

我们实际上并不能自主控制这个特殊的括约肌，但是自主神经系统会在你不撒尿的时候把它收紧以防止泄漏。

For now, you learned the basic two-part system of your autonomic nervous system.

现在，你学习了自主神经系统的基本两部分系统。

Your autonomic system is the branch of your peripheral nervous system that regulates the functions of your internal organs, like your heart and stomach, and also controls your smooth and cardiac muscles, and your glands.

你的自主神经系统是你周围神经系统的分支，它调节你内部器官的功能，比如你的心脏和胃，也控制你的平滑肌和心肌，以及你的腺体。

You may recall from our tour of the anatomy of your autonomic nervous system, that in both your sympathetic and parasympathetic divisions, almost every signal has to cross two synapses.

你可能还记得我们对你自主神经系统解剖的介绍，在你的感神经和副感神经部门，几乎每个信号都必须通过两个触。

But if you were to somehow disconnect your heart from your autonomic nervous system, things, as you might imagine, would change.

但是如果你以某种方式切断了心脏和自主神经系统的连接，你可以想象事情会发生改变。

It's often described as the calming side of your autonomic system — a kind of antidote to the effects of stress created by the sympathetic system.

它通常被描述为你自主神经系统的镇静面——一种由感神经系统产生的压力效应的解毒剂。

At any given moment, whether you happen to be totally relaxed or completely flipping your wig, your autonomic system is constantly making involuntary, fine-tuned adjustments to your body, based on what signals your central nervous system is picking up.

在任何特定时刻，无论你是彻底放松还是完全抓狂，你的自主神经系统都在根据你的中枢神经系统接收到的信号，不断对你的身体进行非自愿的微调调整。

And that is basically your autonomic nervous system in a nutshell.

简而言之，这就像是你的自主神经系统。

Not a mind, exactly, but an automatic nervous system, or ANS.

准确来说，不是大脑，而是自主神经系统（ANS）。

And the blood, the entire autonomic system, tended to slow down.

血液，乃至整个自主神经系统，都倾向于减缓运行。