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human
eli5: When someone has an accident that results in paralysis from the neck down, how do all their internal organs continue to work? Are the organs controlled by a different set of nerves than the rest of the body?
gpt
Yes. There are two bundles of nerves going through the neck that control the rest of the body. The nerves that control your automatic processes like heart rate, breathing, and sweating come through the front/center of the neck, along the veins and arteries, while the nerves that control conscious motions go along the spine in the back of the neck.

Generally, if you've damaged/cut the automatic nerves, the veins and arteries will also have suffered damage/have been cut and you will bleed to death. However, you can break the spine/interrupt the spinal cord/nerves without actually damaging the automatic nerves or the windpipe or veins and arteries, so it is possible to become a paraplegic through damage to the spinal cord without any interruption to automatic processes.