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stress. when you have very high amounts of stress it causes adrenaline which leads to fight or flight

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Q: What causes the fight or flight response?
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The flight or fight response causes your bodies to be filled with and other stress chemicals?

The flight or fight response causes your body to be filled with adrenaline. There are also other stress chemicals present.


Flight or fight hormone?

The fight or flight response is a physical response; a strong stimulus or emergency causes the release of a chemical called nor-adrenaline (also called norepinephrine)


What causes breathing increase during a fight or flight response?

It is caused by the neurohormone called norepinephrine.


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.


What causes your pulse rate to change after an accident?

WHen we are in immediate danger our bodies prepare for action to avoid the hazard, or if need be, to fight it off. This is a natural response of the autonomic nervous system and sometimes called the fight-or-flight response.


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