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Autonomic Nervous Attack

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If I were being attacked by a bear my body would seem to have one quick response to reacting to the attack. But, in fact, there are a few steps my body would have to take to react to the attack. At first my visual sensory organs would kick in once I sensed the threat. The type of neurons responding are afferent neurons, because they are receiving the threat. Once the threat is received my visual cortex registers the perception, whihch is located in the brains occipital lobe, and then lets my autonomic nervous system take over. Since I have two branches to my autonomic nervous system, and so do you, the correct one needs to take action in a very quick manner. That action would be my sympathetic nervous system because it’s my body’s fight or

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