Nervous system articles within Nature Reviews Cardiology

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• Review Article | 13 June 2019

  The autonomic nervous system and cardiac arrhythmias: current concepts and emerging therapies

  Neuromodulation therapy might be clinically useful in the management and prevention of lethal arrhythmias. In this Review, the authors discuss the neuroanatomical and neurophysiological basis for neuromodulation therapy, critically appraise the latest data on the clinical efficacy of this approach and highlight areas in the field of cardiac autonomic control that show the most promise for clinical translation.

  • Neil Herring
  • , Manish Kalla
  •  & David J. Paterson

• Review Article | 27 September 2011

  Neural mechanisms of atrial arrhythmias

  Ectopic foci in pulmonary veins can trigger episodes of atrial fibrillation, but how these foci arise remains unclear. Dr Mark Shen and colleagues review the role of the autonomous nervous system in the induction and maintenance of atrial arrhythmias, and discuss neural modulation as a treatment strategy for patients with atrial fibrillation.

  • Mark J. Shen
  • , Eue-Keun Choi
  •  & Peng-Sheng Chen