Autonomic Nervous System
This nervous system automatically regulates your body functions like heartbeat and breathing.
What is the autonomic nervous system?
This response involves standing up to a threat or challenge.
What is the fight response?
The vagus nerve is part of this nervous system, responsible for rest and digest.
What is the parasympathetic nervous system?
In this manga series, Alchemy is the main theme, and the main characters are two brothers searching for the Philosopher's Stone.
What is 'Full Metal Alchemist'?
This part of the autonomic nervous system is like your body's 'rest and relax' mode.
What is the parasympathetic nervous system?
This response is characterized by avoiding or escaping a perceived threat.
What is the flight response?
This technique, involving deep, slow breathing, can stimulate the vagus nerve.
What is diaphragmatic breathing?
This anime and manga series follows the journey of Gon Freecss as he becomes a Hunter to find his father, a legendary Hunter himself.
What is 'Hunter x Hunter'?
This part of the autonomic nervous system prepares you for 'fight or flight'
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
This response is like hitting the pause button when faced with danger, where a person feels stuck or immobilized.
What is the freeze response?
The vagus nerve helps regulate this vital organ by controlling heart rate.
What is the heart?
his dark fantasy series is set in a medieval Europe-inspired dark fantasy world and follows the protagonist, Guts, a lone mercenary
What is 'Berserk'?
This chemical messenger increases your heart rate and blood pressure during stress.
What is adrenaline? (or epinephrine)
This hormone, along with adrenaline, is released during the fight or flight response.
What is cortisol?
This term describes the vagus nerve's ability to reduce inflammation in the body.
What is the anti-inflammatory effect?
This manga series is about a gifted cook named Soma Yukihira and his adventures in an elite culinary school.
What is 'Food Wars!' (Shokugeki no Soma)?
This brain area controls your autonomic functions and regulates body temperature, hunger, and thirst.
What is the hypothalamus?
This part of the brain assesses threat and triggers the fight/flight/freeze response.
What is the amygdala?
The vagus nerve impacts this system, which includes the stomach and intestines.
What is the digestive system?
This manga story follows the story of a powerful psychic teenager, Mob, who struggles to live a normal life.
What is 'Mob Psycho 100'?