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The heart has long been thought to be controlled solely by the autonomic nervous system, which transmits signals from the brain.

"However, these results provide early evidence that the autonomic nervous system may be a therapeutic target for disease modification of HD."

Music can activate our autonomic nervous system and even cause shivers down the spine.

"That may mean that we may be actually inducing a form of plastic effect on the brain-body interaction circuit that is also involved in autonomic functions like blood pressure and heart rate," Romo-Nava said.

"Our future research will search for ways to block these complications and protect the adrenal gland from receiving 'false' autonomic nervous system information originating from the spinal cord below the lesion site."