Talk:Freezing behavior

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I won't edit this article myself right now (other than to remove an inappropriate See Also to WikiProject Neuroscience-- articles should not link to non-article parts of Wikipedia), but I'd like to mention a couple of points. First, it is not true that freezing is caused by the sympathetic nervous system -- it is caused by activity in the brain, and the sympathetic nervous system is part of the peripheral nervous system. Second, the brain structure most strongly associated with freezing by recent research is the lateral septum -- if you search Google Scholar for "lateral septum freezing", you'll get a bunch of relevant papers. Regards, Looie496 (talk) 16:46, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
 * sorry for an outsider's question (for such people wiki is there...): is the strict separation of brain-activity and the autonomous sympathetic nervous system correct? can brain-activities - e.g. assessing a situation as dangerous - not tritter the actions of the sympathetic systems?? to me this seems not only plausible but even logical or necessary... --HilmarHansWerner (talk) 11:30, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

polyvagal theory
the so-called "polyvagal theory" by stephen porges that deals extesively with the freeze-reaction and explains it by the actions of the "dorsal non-myelinated vagus system" is not even mentioned... is it so horrendous for 'serious' scientists that it is not even referred to or is this a case of ignorance? in the latter case - and I'd say in any case - it has to be dealt with... --HilmarHansWerner (talk) 11:38, 2 October 2018 (UTC)


 * This is completely out of the blue, however, I believe that polyvagal theory explains the condition autism and that ultimately autism is the result of a freeze response that occured during utero. How do you respond to that? Theory1234 (talk) 23:57, 30 June 2023 (UTC)