Sentences with phrase «threat system responses»

To decrease our relationship distress, we can turn down both the «hot» and «cold» threat system responses at the same time by working together to create greater emotional safety.

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Where risks pose a threat to the financial system, the Review explains the issue and the policy response.

Apple pulled the app from its store that same month, and a new version was released in April, promoting a long list of enhanced safety features, including a fast - response system that contacts authorities if a threat is detected.

In school, a highly sensitive stress - response system constantly on the lookout for threats can produce patterns of behavior that are self - defeating: fighting, talking back, acting up in class, and also, more subtly, going through each day perpetually wary of connection with peers and resistant to outreach from teachers and other adults.

In the short term, this may have benefits, especially in a dangerous environment: When your threat - detection system — sometimes referred to as your fight - or - flight response — is on high alert, you are always prepared for trouble, and you can react to it quickly.

And while children are certainly affected by stressors outside the home, like neighborhood violence or abuse by a stranger, it is true that for a majority of children, the most significant threats to the development of their stress - response system come from inside their home.

In response to physical or psychological threat, all three of these systems engage.

A reverse 911 system proposed in Glen Ellyn could alert residents during storms and freight collisions and perhaps improve response time if there was a threat of violence at a local school, local officials say.

Today's frantic new media systems can generate huge waves of alarmist communications which invade countries and alarm the citizens about two main issues that bypass the logical part of the brain: racial threat and sex... both topics are used by media to command human attention because they bypass conscious brain structures to ensure a fast response, the same as a deja vu is seen before it is noticed, so to speak.

Because I think what we risk with the level of complication that has now been built into the system and the degree to which there isn't timely response when candidates add questions, that creates the threat of New Yorkers who maybe aren't billionaires but who could raise the $ 200,000 on their own of opting out of the system.

He said he hoped the new system would bring «further transparency and understanding» following the July 7th attacks on London, although he stressed the intelligence behind the threat levels, and the specific response details to any threat, would remain private.

«Improving the response to threats to public safety will allow our nation's transportation systems to overcome the challenges that were experienced by law enforcement, emergency first responders, TSA and the public during the LAX shooting.»

Much of the current confusion in neuroscience research on fear stems from the conflation of two separate phenomena that are both labeled «fear»: behavioral and physiological fear responses elicited by threats, such as a snake or a mugger, and conscious feelings of fear, which occur in the same situation but are controlled by a different brain system.

The Boomerang system, developed in response to sniper threats to US soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, uses a seven - microphone array mounted at the rear of military vehicles.

From a neurological perspective, when we experience a healthy sense of control, our prefrontal cortex (the executive functioning part of our brain) regulates the amygdala (a part of the brain's threat detection system that initiates the fight or flight response).

In some systems indirect effects of predation can also arise as a result of behavioral changes by prey in response to the threat of predation, which we will further explore in this chapter.

When cell activity is depressed, the immune system is not generating appropriate responses to threats.

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Amelia's broader research focuses on connecting ecological and spatial data to assess responses of coastal and marine systems to threats, in order to determine ecological ramifications of ecosystem degradation.

In response to threats from predators, elephants are known to produce a variety of vocalizations, including rumbles, roars and trumpets [21], but until recently the alarm call system of the African elephant has received little systematic attention.

Thus, it acts in blood and immune system cells, not only the brain, and is involved in terminating the stress response after the end of a threat.

It's because people with allergies have an immune system that is launching an immune response to harmless substances (like pollen), as if they are a threat to the body.

Certain food turns down our threat response system (TRS), an intricate network of brain structures that then alert us to the stress and encourage us to behave in ways that allow us to fight the stress.

It represents the most basic immune system response that puts the body into defensive mode to ward off threats.

If junk food actually does help dampen the threat response system, perhaps you will mindfully and intentionally choose to eat (or drink) something that makes you feel better.

The immune system is responsible for protecting the body from various foreign viruses and bacteria, but an asthmatics» immune system perceives certain substances and allergens as big threats and activates an exaggerated response, thus triggering an asthma attack.

Our fight or flight response (when our sympathetic nervous system gets all ramped up over a real or perceived threat) can be helpful when facing a bear in the forest, but isn't helpful when looking at a bear claw in the bakery.

However, this minor inflammation pales in comparison to the real threat: your immune system's large response to p.acnes.

Our immune system recognizes these particles and invaders and triggers an inflammatory response to deal with the perceived «threat».

Inflammation is a defense mechanism our immune system uses in response to real or perceived threats.

Any time our body is faced with injury (whether it be physical or chemical), our inflammatory system kicks in and increases blood flow to the injured area, sends healing substances to the site of injury, and coordinates the response of other body systems in dealing with the threat to our health.

If your immune system mistakenly triggers an inflammatory response when no threat is present, it can lead to significant inflammation - related damage to the body, a condition linked to cancer and other diseases, depending on which organs the inflammation is impacting.

The body perceives the absence as a threat and activates a stress response that — when prolonged — leads to physiological changes that affect the brain and overall systems of physical and mental health.

However, when the threat is persistent and the stress response system does not return to its resting state, continuous elevations of the stress hormone cortisol actually disrupt the formation of new brain circuits and suppress immune function.

It's imported from the juvenile justice system, and is a tiered response to help educators distinguish really serious threats from the kind of typical adolescent poor judgement and use of words that are not legitimate threats.

Cadillac continues to supply a long list of safety technologies for the Escalade, including a front center airbag system, adaptive cruise control with forward collision warning, front and rear automatic low - speed braking, lane departure and blind spot warning, rear cross-traffic alert, lane change alert, automatic seat belt tightening, and a safety alert seat that vibrates in response to potential threats.

In response to any antigens, the immune system recognizes the threat and produces antibodies to up the body's protection.

A dog's autonomic nervous system responds to the perceived threat by triggering a physical response throughout the body.

PJM, in its strongly worded response to FirstEnergy's petition to DOE for an emergency bailout (see below), stated «without reservation there is no immediate threat to system reliability.»

BAE Systems group GC Philip Bramwell (pictured above right) said: «If you have not practised your cyber incident response plan, maybe you should, because you will not have the in - house capacity to deal with a cyber threat.

Where the jobs are growing and where they're going Beyond the booming fintech sector, which is being driven by hiring in artificial intelligence and cyber security in response to escalating systems threats, hiring for regulatory jobs have picked up significant pace.

Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Singapore's deputy prime minister and chairman of Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), said in a written response to MPs yesterday that cryptocurrency and related trading activity currently do not pose any threat to Singapore's finance system.

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From this perspective, social adversity and perceived threat in childhood should upregulate the innate immune system, a system that provides immediate defense against infection, and enhance pro-inflammatory response tendencies as a way to prepare for potential impending tissue damage and infection.

It has been argued that the cortisol system is activated in conditions in which central goals are threatened.49 This motivational perspective assumes that situations characterized by social evaluation are expected to elicit a significant cortisol response as a result of the salient threat it poses to the goal of maintaining the social self.

Results provide further support of using the Tend - and - Befriend model to predict differences in stress response system activity between men and women, as well as modifications to that theory that incorporate male responses to out - group threats.

We hypothesized that participants with higher anxiety would have a different pattern of activation during negative emotion processing because, in behavioral studies, it was found that anxious subjects displayed hypervigilance in response to cues related to attachment threat or a prolonged overactivation of the attachment system.

Individuals with higher anxiety levels were seen to be more sensitive to information related to immediate threats in the current environment; however, the brain systems mediating this response are no longer recruited when these individuals are presented with cues related to their partners.

• The brain has mechanisms for assessing and responding to threat, and chronic threat may cause permanent brain changes — When the stress response system of the brain is activated by a traumatic experience, the brain makes an association between the traumatic experience and the accompanying sensory stimuli (sights, sounds, etc.).

Collectively, this is indicative of a threat - response system that is overly sensitized, with greater amygdala activation combined with more compromised PFC suppression and down - regulation of the emotional threat response [36, 38, 39 • •, 40, 95].