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What is the explanation for the fight or flight response?
When faced with a situation your body has two natural responses. Fight, or Flight. If your body does not tell you to run away (or fly) then you have chosen the Fight response. The response can be triggered by man things including emotions for the day, and the balance of chemicals in your body at the time.
Does ATP production occur during fight or flight response?
yes
What produces the fight or flight hormone?
the response is made when your in danger or are under extreme stress such as in a fight or when you need an extra boost
Flight or Fight response main hormone released?
Epinephrine. Also known as Adrenaline.
How can sympathetic and parasympathetic fibers act as antagonists?
Sympathetic fibers convey impulses that stimulate our "fight or flight" response. Parasympathetic are just the opposite, you might say they are for "rest and digest". They are both firing at the same time but depending on your environment and emotional state, one will dominate over the other.
What is the definition of fight or flight?
The "fight or flight" response is our body's primitive, automatic response that prepares the body to "fight" or "flee" from perceived attack, harm, or threat to survival. When the "fight or flight" response is activated, chemicals like adrenaline and cortisol are released into the blood stream. The rate of respiration increases, blood is redirected from the digestive system into the muscles and limbs; which require extra energy for running and fighting, pupils dilate, awareness intensifies, sight sharpens, impulses quicken, perception of pain diminishes, and immune response intensifies.
What is the other name for fight or flight response?
I don't think there is because fight or flight is response action the body makes when in a dangerous situation. Stand and fight or flight RUN.
Which stage in stress response does the fight or flight response occur?
The ALARM response
What is responsible for the fight or flight response?
The adrenal medulla is responsible for the fight-or-flight response. It releases a hormonal cascade that results in the secretion of epinephrine and nonrepinephrine.
Who first described the fight or flight response?
Walter Cannon, a harvard physiologist, first investigated the fight or flight response in 1927.
What hormone is responsible for the fight or flight response?
The sympathetic nervous system is responsible for the fight of flight response. The the adrenal glands release epinephrine in the fight or flight response, and norepinephrine after the threat ceases.
Is the fight or flight response only experienced by humans?
The fight or flight response is not only experienced by humans. Animals also experience this when danger is near. They either run away, or stand and fight.
Can cold trigger the fight or flight response?
yes
What drugs create fight or flight response?
Epinephrine
Does stress trigger a fight or flight response?
yes
Why do you jump when you get a fright?
It is the old fight or flight response.
What hormone aids in the fight or flight response?
Adrenaline
