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What is the body's response to stress?
Your Brain
What is the nonspecific response of the body to any demand?
Stress
Which nerves prepare the body for emergencies and stress as part of the response?
Sympathetic nerves: prepare the body for emergencies and stress by increasing the breathing rate, heart rate, and blood flow to muscles. These nerves become aroused as part of the fight-or-flight response, which is the body's natural reaction to real or imaginary danger.
Which neurotransmitter helps your body return to normal after the stress response?
The neurotransmitter that helps the body return to normal after a stress response is the noradrenaline. It is also used to raise blood pressure.
Physical changes that occur in the body that prepare a person to respond to stress are known as?
Stress response
Are stress and anxiety the same thing?
Stress and anxiety are often used interchangeably but there are differences between the two. Stress is a response to an event that causes physiological stress in the body, while anxiety is a response to an event that causes psychological stress.
The initial reaction of the body to stress is called?
The Fight or Flight Response.
What is a body reactions is characteristic of the stress response?
Self harm or yelling
What changes the body's physical response in times of stress?
Adrenaline <>< <--- fish :D
What chemical saves feedback information to the brain about the body's response to stress?
cortisol
What are two endocrine glands or regions that are important in the stress response?
The adrenal glands are chiefly responsible for the stress response in the body; however, the hypothalamus plays a role because it causes the pituitary gland to secrete hormones that travel to the adrenal glands initiating the stress response within the body. The adrenal gland is also known as emergency gland and releases more adrenaline under stress.
What is your bodys natural response to stress?
At first it responds by releasing a hormone from the adrenal glands called epinephrine and norepinephrine. These help to raise blood pressure and heart rate. Then if the stress continues, they release corisol.
