Fight or flight response

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Created on: 24-01-22 22:42

Acute stress?

Common= response to immediate pressures, can be exciting in small amounts and give you focus and energy but exhausting if maintained

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Chronic stress?

Long term and in response to prolonged emotional pressure. Often occurs in situations that individual feels unable to control eg exams and bills.

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Role of adrenaline and noradrenaline?

Effects=
- increased blood flow to brain and skeletal muscles for quick thinking and reactions.
-Decreases blood flow to systems that are not time critical eg skin and digestive and immune systems
-Dilated pupils for improved vision and faster breathing

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Stress related illness?

Constant triggering of fight or flight response in chronic stress has long term physical as mental health.
- shuts down immune system, digestive system
Causes high blood pressure and results in anxiety.
-Increased risk of heart disease, obesity and IBS.

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How to deal with stress?

-focus on breathing helps to lower hr
-exercise, sleep, relaxing music and healthy eating have been shown to reduce lower stress and anxiety levels.
-be social, talk to friends, family and teachers and let them know your stressed. Face-to face is better

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Process of fight or flight?

1. Recognise THREAT
2. Hypo. activates the autonomic nervous system + triggers endocrines. via pituitary gland.
3. Adrenal gland made up of medulla+cortex.
4. In endocrine - the hypothalamus+pituitary and adrenal all acts as HPA
5.ATCH released+ cortisol

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Step 6 of fight or flight.

autonomic nervous system= specialised connection from brain to adrenal gland called sympathetic adrenomedullary pathway is triggered and releases adrenaline and noradrenaline from medulla.

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Chronic stress?

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Long term and in response to prolonged emotional pressure. Often occurs in situations that individual feels unable to control eg exams and bills.

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Role of adrenaline and noradrenaline?

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Stress related illness?

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