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37 Post author: Qiaochu_Yuan 31 January 2013 10:16AM

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Comment author: Gavin 01 February 2013 06:50:40AM 0 points [-]

I think you may now have the definitions mixed up. It looks like you're saying the parasympathetic system governs fight or flight, when it's the sympathetic system that runs fight or flight.

Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 01 February 2013 07:09:05AM 0 points [-]

The phrase is "sympathetic nervous system dominance over the parasympathetic nervous system."

Comment author: ESRogs 01 February 2013 09:02:53AM *  3 points [-]

In its current form,

sympathetic nervous system dominance over the parasympathetic nervous system, which governs the fight-or-flight response, is unpleasant, ...

I couldn't figure out what the sentence was trying to say either.

Would it still be correct to say, "For example, dominance of the sympathetic nervous system (which governs the fight-or-flight response) over the parasympathetic, is unpleasant, ..."?

Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 01 February 2013 05:16:43PM 0 points [-]

That's probably less confusing. Thanks! Edited.

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