Role of autonomic nervous system

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Assignment:

1. Before the advent of modern imaging techniques, scientists and clinicians relied on autopsies of people who suffered brain injury with resultant change in behavior to determine how different areas of the brain were affected. Reread the case of Phineas Gage and the descriptions of the four lobes. Compare the description of Gage's behavior and how his behavior would have changed if his other 3 lobes were damaged, separately, excluding the frontal lobe.

2. Every behavior begins with biology. Think of a stressful event and how your body responded. In a minimum of two paragraphs, with no less than five sentences in each paragraph, describe a fight or flight situation that happened in your life and the role of your autonomic nervous system, before and after the event. Explain why our bodies have two responses to stressful events. Finally, explain the evolutionary process of fight or flight by comparing and contrasting stressors experienced by our ancestors relative to the stressors we experience today.

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