Celebrating A Holiday
Endorphins
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Endorphins can cause feelings of pleasure and happiness. During the holidays, people are usually surrounded by their family and friends causing them to feel happy. This is due to a release of endorphins.
Endorphins can help reduces stress levels and anxiety. Around the holidays, there is a lot of stress due to planning and shopping. Endorphins can help lower the stress rates.
Frontal Lobe
The frontal lobe is in charge of planning, during the holiday's people have to plan where they are going, what time, and what they are bringing. The frontal lobe can help them make those decisions.
The frontal lobe helps with decision making, when choosing presents for someone, people have many options to choose from. The frontal lobe can help people decide what to buy based off a number of factors.
Temporal Lobe
The temporal lobe contains the auditory cortex. The auditory cortex can turn certain music to memories. Christmas music often makes people think of Christmas time or a certain year or party.
Serotonin
Serotonin is involved in appetite and digestion. On holidays such as halloween, you get a lot of candy. Serotonin helps you control how fully you feel and prevents you from eating all the candy at one time.
Thyroid
The thyroid controls metabolism. During the holiday season people often go to a lot of different events and often have a lot to do in one day. The thyroid can help give the person a lot of energy by converting what they eat into energy.
Central Nervous System
The central nervous system controls memory. When people are buying gifts for others, they usually buy presents they think the person will like. The frontal lobe helps people remember the interests of others.
Broca's area
Broca's area speech production.During the holidays, people are surrounded by others and hold conversations. The broca's area helps them form sentences and hold a conversation.
The Broca's area helps with language processing. During the holidays, people are surrounded by others and often hold conversations. The Broca's area helps them understand what others are saying and it helps them form a response.
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Performing in a Musical
Adrenaline
Adrenal Gland
Cerebellum
GABA
The neurotransmitter, GABA controls levels of anxiety. When performing in a musical you may feel anxious while performing in front of a crowd. GABA can help control the amount of fear you may have.
The cerebellum helps contact muscle groups to initiate movements. When in a show, dancing, blocking, and acting is required. You must use the cerebellum to help you perform those movements.
Sympathetic Nervous System
The Sympathetic nervous system control the fight, flight, or freeze response. The proper response is needed if anything goes wrong in the show. The sympathetic nervous system determines what an actor may do in a case where something goes wrong.
The adrenal gland releases cortisol which helps you respond to stress. The week before a show, tech week, can be very stressful for a actor because they have a longer practices and have to keep up with school work. The adrenal gland helps actors deal with the pressure of having to deal with everything at one time.
Adrenaline can increase heart rate and gives you a physical boost especially during excitement. When taking your final bow, you feel a sense of excitement and you are proud. Adrenaline makes feel that excitement and makes you feel happy.
Parietal Lobe
The parietal lobe helps with reading comprehension. Being able to read helps an actor read their script so that they remember it for future performances.