For the third year in a row, our lab teamed up with Dr. Kat Duggan’s lab to take part in NDSU’s Avenues of Scientific Discovery! We gave a 90-minute presentation to visiting middle and high school students on how the brain and body work together to prepare us for challenges.
The highlight was a live demonstration of the fight-or-flight response. Volunteers had their blood pressure and heart rate measured at rest and again during a stressful task, and the students watched the numbers climb in real time.
Duggan, K. A., Garcia, O. G., Byron, G. S., Hilmert, C. J., et al. (2024). The psychophysiology of stress: How the brain and body communicate to prepare us for challenges. Presentation given at the NDSU Avenues of Scientific Discovery, Fargo, ND.
