Beyond the Art of BART: Bilateral Affective Reprocessing of Thoughts as a Dynamic Model for Psychotherapy Across the Lifespan : Table 1

Table 1: Range of responses of the autonomic nervous system to traumatic stress.

Response	Level of Arousal	Nervous System Activated	Neuro-anatomy Endocrine System
Fight	Increased (hyper)	Sympathetic	- H.P.A Axis - Adrenaline
Flight	Increased (hyper)	Sympathetic	- H.P.A Axis - Adrenaline
Fright	Increased (hyper)	Sympathetic	- H.P.A Axis- Adrenaline
Freeze	Decreased (hypo)	Unmyelinated branch of vagus	Post-ganglionic muscarinic nerves -acetylcholine
Faint (vaso- vagal syncope)	Decreased (hypo)	Unmyelinated branch of vagus	Acetylcholine
Feigned death	Decreased (hypo)	Unmyelinated branch of vagus	Acetylcholine