The Body's Response to Acute Stress.
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- Created on: 02-03-13 16:25
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- The Body's Response to Acute Stress.
- Acute stressors arouse autonomic nervous system
- Automatic & necessary as some bodily functions may not work as well as they need too if you had to think about them.
- Sympathetic branch
- Arouses an animal to be ready for fight or flight.
- When animal is exposed to acute stressor, sympathetic nervous system prepares body for fight of flight.
- Key part of response- sympathetic adrenal medullary system (SAM).
- sympathetic nervous system & SAM make up the sympathomedullary pathway.
- Key part of response- sympathetic adrenal medullary system (SAM).
- Parasympathetic branch
- Returns an animal to a state of relaxation.
- Acute stressors arouse autonomic nervous system
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