First, there is an alarm stage, like what Cannon called the fight-or-flight syndrome.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chemistry of Calm] Reference

"It's the fight-or-flight response," explains Kogan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Do Computers Really Fry Your Brain?] Reference

One is the body's primitive "fight-or-flight" mechanism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stress So Bad It Hurts -- Really] Reference

His readiness flowed from fight-or-flight back to stealth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Game Of Empire]

I'm not just talking about fight-or-flight level stuff here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don't Turn Your Back on Your Brain] Reference

The classic stress condition is the fight-or-flight syndrome.    From Wordnik.com.  [FOR A HAPPY HEART] Reference

My paranoid and terrified mind went into fight-or-flight mode.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wajahat Ali: Fighting Wells Fargo and Foreclosure] Reference

That's the "fight" half of the famous fight-or-flight mechanism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kathlyn and Gay Hendricks: A New Way To Deal With Financial Fears] Reference

And we respond to that by eliciting the fight-or-flight response.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 30, 2003] Reference

The fight-or-flight reflex kicks in and even the strong are tested.    From Wordnik.com.  [Republican Autoerotic Asphyxiation] Reference

When we're in stress, the body is in the physiologic fight-or-flight reponse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Have Faith, Dieters] Reference

He traces stress to the circuit responsible for the fight-or-flight response.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Pill Makes You Larger, And One Pill Makes You] Reference

It's a little bit frustrating at times, especially in my fight-or-flight mode.    From Wordnik.com.  [qdiosa Diary Entry] Reference

But this fight-or-flight mechanism causes harm if it's turned on all the time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memory] Reference

Last night at Banjo Jim's I had the fight-or-flight response when I got on stage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth Gerson: 'Dance, Monkey, Dance!': How to Deal With Stage Fright] Reference

“Your amygdala would light up,” as the fight-or-flight reaction was triggered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Re-Thinking Jeffrey Goldberg] Reference

The breath slows down your central nervous system and calms your fight-or-flight mode.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sadie Nardini: Are You A Spiritual Snob?] Reference

The heartbreaking aftermath of choosing either side in the fight-or-flight dilemma.    From Wordnik.com.  [A False Mirror: Summary and book reviews of A False Mirror by Charles Todd.] Reference

GUPTA: Well, I'll tell you, the whole fight-or-flight reflex is a very important reflex.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 11, 2002] Reference

Eliminate caffeine, sugar, and other stimulants; these fuel the fight-or-flight response.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jesse Kornbluth: Judith Orloff, Psychiatrist & Healer: 'Fear Is Viral. So Is Courage. Choose Courage.'] Reference

Anxiety helps animals to anticipate possible danger and trigger our fight-or-flight response.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Code: How We All Became So Anxious] Reference

Dogs are fight-or-flight animals, and chaining them leaves them with only one option -- fight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pit bulls: The most abused dogs in dogdom] Reference

It mobilizes the body's "fight-or-flight response", which prepares us to cope with emergencies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hyla Cass, M.D.: Nutrients to Unplug and Recharge Your Body and Mind] Reference

For our evolutionary precursors, the fight-or-flight response was a valuable survival mechanism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lauren Mackler: Manage Fear So It Doesn't Manage You] Reference

It is an attempt to prolong this fight-or-flight state, and the primitive reasoning it promotes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cheney's Pelosi Ploy] Reference

But, like the body's fight-or-flight response, perhaps such tension can only be maintained for so long.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cheney's Pelosi Ploy] Reference

It causes high blood pressure, racing hearts and too much adrenaline and those fight-or-flight hormones.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 6, 2007] Reference

It's an essential part of our fight-or-flight survival instincts, and many "angry" athletes have thrived.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Importance of Being Angry] Reference

It's an oddly graceful moment of Zen, and it works in beautiful contrast to the fight-or-flight riot of battle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary: Gamers Get Their Kicks From Dying] Reference

Everyone has an autonomic nervous system; it's the oldest part of your nervous system, the fight-or-flight part.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Power of Nonverbal Communication] Reference

Our anxiety or irritability spikes, and this triggers our fight-or-flight mode before we even realize it consciously.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Code: How a Parent's Anxious Mind Impacts a Child] Reference

Because of this, a male is less sensitive to pain, and his system reacts more strongly to the fight-or-flight impulse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Susan Kuchinskas: Why Daddy Love Is Different] Reference

Which, as I understand it, is like making fight-or-flight in a bottle that just happens to be your trying-to-sleep body.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharon Glassman: Why Can't Women Sleep? Part I: Building Better Sleep Basics] Reference

“Some people have a natural fight-or-flight reflex,” he said, “but I guess vomiting is as good an option as any.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ugly Americans]

He seemed to know instinctively how to activate the panel — it almost seemed hard-wired, like his fight-or-flight response.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flood]

It will start trading its fight-or-flight hormones for some rational discourse and the entrepreneurial fancy of The Big Idea.    From Wordnik.com.  [history abhors a vacuum] Reference

Nicotine soothes the primitive fight-or-flight response while focusing attention, and it releases dopamine like a pleasurable reward.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letter to Our New President: It's Time to Break the Habit] Reference

Its such a well refined instinct that the physical closeness of not-very-well-known males provokes my immediately fight-or-flight response.    From Wordnik.com.  [waterdiluted Diary Entry] Reference