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How can animals defecate or urinate in fear if the nervous system seems to opposes it?
It's overly simplistic to think of the sympathetic (SNS) and parasympathetic (PNS) as purely inversely activated; it's possible to activate both at once or suppress both at once. It's also overly ...
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