Robert M. Sapolsky Quote

The sympathetic nervous system (SNS) mediates the body’s response to arousing circumstances, for example, producing the famed fight or flight stress response. To use the feeble joke told to first-year medical students, the SNS mediates the four Fs—fear, fight, flight, and sex. Particular midbrain/brain-stem nuclei send long SNS projections down the spine and on to outposts throughout the body, where the axon terminals release the neurotransmitter norepinephrine.

Robert M. Sapolsky

The sympathetic nervous system (SNS) mediates the body’s response to arousing circumstances, for example, producing the famed fight or flight stress response. To use the feeble joke told to first-year medical students, the SNS mediates the four Fs—fear, fight, flight, and sex. Particular midbrain/brain-stem nuclei send long SNS projections down the spine and on to outposts throughout the body, where the axon terminals release the neurotransmitter norepinephrine.

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About Robert M. Sapolsky

Robert Morris Sapolsky (born April 6, 1957) is an American academic, neuroscientist, and primatologist. He is the John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Professor at Stanford University, and is a professor of biology, neurology, and neurosurgery. His research has focused on neuroendocrinology, particularly relating to stress. He is also a research associate with the National Museums of Kenya.