The organization of the sympathetic nervous system: shining new light on historic views

The organization and spatial distribution of neurons within the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) have been long-standing questions in autonomic neuroscience, particularly concerning the functional innervation of target organs. First understood as an ‘alarm reaction’ system turned on en masse, advancements in nerve recording techniques have revealed sympathetic outflow to be differentially controlled to distinct functional subunits within (DiBona...