You experience this when your body tries to maintain and regain disrupted homeostatic balance
What is Stress?
100
This part of the brain plays an important role in retaining long term memory.
What is the hippocampus?
100
Any stimuli that causes a nonspecific response in an individual
What is a stressor?
100
An abrupt and discrete experience of intense fear or acute discomfort, accompanied by symptoms.
What is a panic attack?
100
The way that the amygdala senses threat.
What is the receiving of input from neurons in the cortex?
200
Epinephrine is also known as this
What is adrenaline?
200
In primates, this is likely to trigger a stress response as a result of their high sensitivity to stressful situations.
What is anticipation?
200
These are the type of cells that are white blood cells derived from the thymus that are generally essential for proper immune system function?
What are T cells?
200
These are some of the symptoms of panic attacks
What are heart palpitations, shortness of breath, sweating, trembling, and worries about going crazy, losing control, or dying?
200
The other central focus of the amygdala.
What is aggression?
300
This part of the brain deals with emotions
What is the limbic system?
300
Deficiencies in these hormones resulted in reduced anxiety in mice.
What is corticotropin?
300
These are chemicals produced by the body that work in the nerve transmission (dopamine, epinephrine, and norepinephrine)
What are catecholoamines?
300
A generalized biological vulnerability toward anxiety, leading us to overreact to the events of daily life is a predisposition to do this.
What is to develop a panic disorder?
300
In addition to processing abstract associations, this cortex helps to make judgments about our incoming information and initiating behaviors based on those assessments.
What is the frontal cortex?
400
This part of the autonomic nervous system mediates your "fight or flight" responses
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
400
Disruption to this gene in the nervous system reduced anxiety in mice.
What is the glucococorticoid receptor gene?
400
Hormones like epinephrine and cortisol trigger this type of response in the sympathetic nervous system
What is a "fight or flight" response?
400
Gradual exposure to the internal and external cues that trigger panic attacks, along with changing the catastrophic interpretations of bodily cues so that they no longer trigger the attacks is the first step to do what?
What is to treat panic disorders?
400
Severe stress can harm this, preventing the consolidation of a conscious, explicit memory of an event.
What is the hippocampus?
500
This hormone increases your heart rate and sharpens your senses
What is epinephrine
500
These are specific glucocorticoids in humans that are released in the body when in stress (Excess of it)
What is cortisol?
500
This type of stressor is a type of stress that lasts a long time or occurss frequently.
What is a chronic stressor?
500
The action that the amygdala is involved in.
What is the perception of and response to fear-evoking stimuli?
500
The amygdala releases this, which stimulates the brain stem.