Autonomic Trace

One feedback loop, exposed

A transparent educational model of short-term arterial baroreflex feedback after a pressure disturbance. Move the disturbance and watch the afferent signal, sympathetic drive, heart rate, and vascular resistance answer it.

Explore the response

Run the model

python3 autonomic_trace.py --shock-mmhg -20 --shock-at 5 --seconds 45 --out trace.csv

The boundary

This is an illustrative teaching model with exposed assumptions—not a validated patient model, medical device, diagnosis, treatment guide, or estimator of anyone's autonomic state. MIT licensed. Source and scientific references.