Being cut off in traffic, giving a presentation or missing a meal can all trigger a suite of physiological changes that allow the body to react swiftly to stress or starvation. Critical to this "fight ...

The fight-flight-freeze response is your body’s natural reaction to danger. It happens through hormonal and physiological changes that allow you to act quickly so you can protect yourself.

All the spooky stimuli that transform our yards into artificial terrorscapes can easily trigger the 'fight or flight' response in dogs, and even cats may get freaked out by what they see out the ...

Bolls explained that sympathetic arousal is the reaction from your sympathetic nervous system, which controls the “flight or fight” response to danger. While Bolls and his team are still ...

In stressful situations, spikes in cortisol levels trigger the body’s “fight or flight” response, a heightened physiological state in reaction to a stressor. But it is problematic if levels ...