Relatively lower body mass index is associated with an excess of severe truncal asymmetry in healthy adolescents Grivas TB et al. - Sympathetic nervous system activation with asymmetry leads to asymmetries in ribs and/or vertebrae producing severe TA when beyond the capacity of postural mechanisms of the somatic nervous system to control the shape distortion of the trunk. A test of this hypothesis testing skin sympathetic responses, as in the Rett syndrome, is suggested. [more...]
