And that's exactly what allows me to move my hand back and forth. Now what about the autonomic nervous system? Well, the autonomic nervous system innervates cardiac muscle and smooth muscle and then also innervates different types of glands found inside our body. So that means the autonomic nervous system controls the race, the beating of the heart and also controls, for example, the dilation and constriction of our blood vessels. So it's the autonomic nervous system that controls all our involuntary movement, movement that we cannot actually control. Now the somatic nervous system consists of our electrical pathways that only have one neuron.