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Scenario: A person is driving on the highway, and another car coming from…
Scenario: A person is driving on the highway, and another car coming from the opposite direction swerves into their lane almost causing an accident.
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The process starts at the hypothalamus where it is activated into two systems: Sympathetic nervous system and adrenal-cortical system
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In a threat, the sympathetic system will send impulses to glands and smooth muscles, than tells the adrenal medulla to release adrenaline into the blood stream (a persons stress hormones)
The hypothalamus also releases CRF into another gland, which activates the adrenal-cortical system
This allows more hormones to be released as a way for the body to get prepared in how to deal with the threat