When you work based on fear, you create adrenaline from the fight or flight response.
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But the AbioCor lacks a response to "fight or flight, " a hormonal mechanism triggered by the brain.
Fear and greed, which originate from two of our most primal instincts, fight or flight, are the culprits.
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"It's highly tied to the fight or flight response, " says George Preti, a faculty member at Monell Center.
The fight or flight instinct is one of our most basic survival tools.
"Part of our 'fight or flight' reflexes to keep us alive includes the switch into the REM state of consciousness, " he said.
For instance, it could be that looking at females heightens sympathetic nervous system pathways which are associated with fight or flight impulses.
The fight or flight mindset of our ancestors is mimicked in the symptoms of a person suffering from a social phobia, says Chemblis.
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Humans have a lot of reflexes that help keep us alive, part of the "fight or flight" response that arises when we're confronted with danger.
Mention ICD-10 to hospital executives and you may trigger all sorts of fight and flight responses, shudders, shivers, and even full-blown Freudian denial and repression.
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You end up constantly on guard, with your adrenaline pumping to the fight or flight responders in your brain, leaving your best intellectual power untapped and unavailable.
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"Understanding how our bodies prepare for fight or flight is just one of the applications of their work, which has also opened the door for a wide range of new, more effective drug treatments with fewer side effects, " Poliakoff added.
While it might sound like this poor mom has what it takes to be the next Andrea Yates, it's important to understand that she's really just adjusting to the "fight or flight" stress hormones that for any new mom or mom-to-be are innate and incredibly powerful, Brizendine said.
As the oldest part of the brain, the amygdala prioritizes survival and regulates the fight-or-flight response.
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Scientists have also discovered that humans apply our fight-or-flight reflexes not only to predators but to data itself!
When something new pops up, the reptilian brain goes into fight-or-flight, friend-or-foe sensing.
Lee and Yun theorize that anti-inflammatory drugs counteract the body's self-destructive response to heart failure by decreasing the body's fight-or-flight response.
That same fight-or-flight response that prevented us from being eaten by tigers also warns us when our mental selves are in danger.
These receptors, or tiny sensors on cells, interact with the fight-or-flight hormone adrenalin (also called epinephrine), dopamine, serotonin, light, flavor and odor.
Beta blockers work by reducing activity in the sympathetic nervous system, which is one of the two major branches of the body's stress (or fight-and-flight) system.
When we encounter ideas or information that contradict what we believe to be true, the brain perceives it as a threat and instantly shifts into fight-or-flight mode.
When we hold our breath, the brain is momentarily oxygen deprived and hits the flight or fight response, fueling a more emotional reaction to the words shooting out of our fingers.
Men's cognitive areas may be more highly triggered because they would have had to make "fight-or-flight" decisions, while women would have reacted to threats by thinking about how they could protect their children.
They activate the fight-or-flight response.
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"This policy reversal is against the best interest of the security of crew and passengers in the aircraft cabin and we will stop at nothing to fight it, " said the Flight Attendants Union Coalition, in a press statement issued Thursday announcing its campaign to reverse the TSA's decision.
We either reject the information out of hand (flight) or argue vociferously against it (fight).
The fight that erupted in Los Angeles forces this question to the surface: Can top-flight newspapers owned by publicly traded companies serve both investors and the public?
"We had a very hot fight internally on whether or not to hide mistakes, " says Samson Yeh, CAL's director of flight training.
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