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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"Part of our 'fight or flight' reflexes to keep us alive includes the switch into the REM state of consciousness, " he said.
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.
The fight or flight instinct is one of our most basic survival tools.
"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.
Fear and greed, which originate from two of our most primal instincts, fight or flight, are the culprits.
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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.
We either reject the information out of hand (flight) or argue vociferously against it (fight).
As the oldest part of the brain, the amygdala prioritizes survival and regulates the fight-or-flight response.
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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.
"We had a very hot fight internally on whether or not to hide mistakes, " says Samson Yeh, CAL's director of flight training.
Samara's effort to launch a third satellite over Latin America got him embroiled in a bitter fight with the U.S. Department of Defense and Boeing, which use the L-band for communication during flight tests.
"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.
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