This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW SHARON, Iowa -- Three young brothers are dead after a crash in Mahaska County Thursday. The Iowa State Patrol says a truck driven by 41-year-old Shawn Schippers collided with a car driven by 16-year-old Jamie Singletary at the intersection of Queens Avenue and 130th Street, east of New Sharon, around 1:00 p.m. They say both vehicles went into the ditch.
Video: Sympathetic Nervous System: Definition, Function & Effects. The autonomic nervous system is the portion that controls all of the involuntary functions of the body. This includes the body's response to emergency situations. In this article, we discuss the sympathetic nervous system and its responses under these circumstances.
This system is the primary mechanism in control of the fight-or-flight response and the freeze-and-dissociate response. Within the brain, the autonomic nervous system is regulated by the hypothalamus.Autonomic functions include control of respiration, cardiac regulation (the cardiac control center), vasomotor activity (the vasomotor center), and certain reflex actions such as coughing, sneezing, swallowing and vomiting.he autonomic nervous system is divided into the sympathetic nervous system and parasympathetic nervous system. The sympathetic division emerges from the spinal cord in the thoracic and lumbar areas, terminating around L2-3.