The discourses and practices of neoliberalism, including government policies for education and training, public debates regarding standards and changed funding regimes, have been at work on and in schools in capitalist societies since at least the 1980s.
The fight-or-flight response (also called the acute stress response ) was first described by Walter Bradford Cannon. His theory states that animals react to threats with a general discharge of the sympathetic nervous system, priming the animal for fighting or fleeing.
This system is the primary mechanism in control of the fight-or-flight response and the freeze-and-dissociate response. Within the brain, the autonomic nervous system is regulated by the hypothalamus.Autonomic functions include control of respiration, cardiac regulation (the cardiac control center), vasomotor activity (the vasomotor center), and certain reflex actions such as coughing, sneezing, swallowing and vomiting.his system is the primary mechanism in control of the fight-or-flight response and the freeze-and-dissociate response. Within the brain, the autonomic nervous system is regulated by the hypothalamus.