Panic attacks: Do not breathe!

Scientists have discovered why during panic attacks a person starts to choke. This reaction of the body for a long time astonished science. It is known that the human body is set up to deal with stress, the body is always trying to rebuff any disease or stressful situations.
When a person is saved from a wild animal, he may get a completely smooth wood to a height of 30 meters, which in any other more "quiet" conditions, never in my life could not be repeated. There are cases when the mother raised her hands cars weighing nearly a ton, which was pressed their children. So why during a panic attack, that is the most that neither is stressful situation We suddenly begin to choke?

Researchers from the University of Iowa is believed that this is associated with certain areas of the brain that register fear. They directly relate to other areas responsible for breathing. Between these two zones occurs a sort of "short circuit", which leads to the fact that a person starts to choke.

"As the living organisms that consume breathing oxygen, are under constant threat of strangulation, this is the threat may have a decisive influence on the protective system of the brain, - said Stephen Marin of the University of Michigan. - In some ways, it's not even surprising. For example, when some hare or a deer is in the grasping paws of a predator, then it is strangling the main fear - it signals imminent death. "

The researchers believe that their findings can serve as the scientific basis for the creation of drugs that act on the brain area responsible for a panic reaction and panic attacks.

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