When faced with a perceived threat, whether physical or emotional, the body instinctively reacts to protect itself. This ...

High profile plane crashes, like the Washington DC crash, can heighten flight anxiety. Two aerophobia experts share tips on ...

But what happens when you can't seem to move forward or backward? Functional freeze, otherwise known as the the third "F" in the fight, flight, freeze and fawn list, is a stress response defined as a ...

You're probably familiar with the symptoms of anxiety: feeling worried, racing thoughts, and being irritable. But while being ...

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

Expert Rev Endocrinol Metab. 2012;7(4):445-459. Box 1. Changes in the body associated with the fight or flight response. Heart rate and blood pressure increase. The heart pump rate increases from ...

The 'fight or flight' hormone adrenaline — which is produced during times of stress — is an agonist of the β 2-adrenergic receptor (β 2 AR), a G-protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) that mediates ...