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 * Hormone 1**

Adrenaline - Adrenaline is produced in the adrenal glands. It controls arousal, flight or fight, contracts blood vessels, and dilates air passages. Experiments on pigeons suggest that adrenaline provides a fierce appetite, followed by a desire to sleep. However, if the food is not present, then the subject treated with adrenaline becomes fidgety and experiences an energy increase, similar to Hollywood depictions of humans on an adrenaline rush.

This video helps explain adrenaline

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Hormone 2
Dopamine - Dopamine is mainly produced in the pituitary gland. It plays a key role in cognition, behavior, voluntary movement, reward and punishment, motivation, sleep, mood, attention, learning, and working memory. Studies have shown that too much Dopamine causes Schizophrenia, but too less causes Parkinson's Disease despite less then one percent of neurotransmitters using dopamine.

This video will explain the cognitive functions of dopamine.

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