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S2E07: Your Mind on Good & Bad Sleep, with Dr. Lauren Whitehurst

Minds Matter

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The Role of the Vagus Nerve in the Parasympathetic Nervous System

The vagus nerve is the longest nerve in the parasympathetic nervous system. It can actually receive inputs from the sympathetic nervous system and integrate them into its information that it passes on to the central nervous system. "It's so dynamic our systems are not simple right like it's good job security that we have so much dynamic interactions that are hard to model"

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