Researchers at the Texas Biomedical Device Center—or TxBDC—discovered a way to retrain the brain’s fear response using a tiny ...

Your brain’s natural rinse cycle flows while you sleep. A new study suggests certain medications interfere with that ...

The amygdala, often called the brain’s fear center, activates the fight-or-flight response when a threat is perceived. Leaders who craft a “boogeyman” exploit this mechanism by exaggerating ...

The human brain, an intricate organ ... It’s also responsible for our fight-or-flight response—a physiological reaction that ...

The Threat Response System When the brain perceives a threat, the amygdala activates the “fight or flight” response. This prioritises survival over daily tasks, redirecting resources away from ...

Other brain areas also respond to the threat, and the signals they generate turn on the stress response, activating all the body systems for fight or flight.. Researchers believe that anybody can ...

Dr. Zemmar's team observed gamma oscillations involved in memory retrieval just before and after cardiac arrest.

Changes in the body associated with the fight or flight response. Heart rate and blood ... regulation and in distinctive patterns of brain structure. Male and female fetuses respond differently ...