The amount of compensatory sweating depends on the patient, the damage that the white rami communicans incurs, and the amount of cell body reorganization in the spinal cord after surgery.
Other potential complications include inadequate resection of the ganglia, gustatory sweating, pneumothorax, cardiac dysfunction, post-operative pain, and finally Horner’s syndrome secondary to resection of the stellate ganglion.
www.ubcmj.com/pdf/ubcmj_2_1_2010_24-29.pdf

After severing the cervical sympathetic trunk, the cells of the cervical sympathetic ganglion undergo transneuronic degeneration
After severing the sympathetic trunk, the cells of its origin undergo complete disintegration within a year.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1439-0442.1967.tb00255.x/abstract

Sunday, April 13, 2008

brain norepinephrine turnover, and memory and the need for Power

David C. McClelland1 Contact Information, J. Anderson Maddocks1 and Dan P. McAdams1, 2

(1) Department of Psychology and Social Relations, Harvard University, 33 Kirkland Street, 02138 Cambridge, Massachusetts
(2) Present address: Loyola University of Chicago, USA
Abstract Subjects were classified according to whether they were high or low in the need for Power and high or low in gain in 3-methoxy-4-hydroxyphenylglycol (MHPG), a putative index of brain norepinephrine (NE) turnover, after engaging in some tasks that involved memory for story content. Subjects who were high inn Power and in the index of brain NE turnover showed better recall of power-related facts than subjects low on both these characteristics, confirming an earlier finding, which suggests that the need for Power is subserved by a noradrenergic reward system in the brain.

The need for power, brain norepinephrine turnover, and memory

JournalMotivation and Emotion
PublisherSpringer Netherlands
ISSN0146-7239 (Print) 1573-6644 (Online)
IssueVolume 9, Number 1 / March, 1985
DOI10.1007/BF00991546
Pages1-10
Subject CollectionBehavioral Science
SpringerLink DateMonday, January 10, 2005