Connection to general health and behavior

• Can generate both depression and Euphoria
• Causes mood changes
• Has a hand in addiction
• Mediates the stress response

DESCRIPTION AND LOCATION

• Situated along the perimeter of the adrenal gland (found on top the kidney)
• The adrenal cortex comprizes of nine layers

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HORMONAL SECRETION

• Steriod hormone
• Thherapeutics hormone
• Adrencorticotropic hormone

The role it plays in the body...
It mediates the stress response through the prediction if mineralcorticoids and glucorticoids, including androsterone and cortisol respectively

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If your Adrenal Cortex doesn't work right you will not produce hormones that are vital to life such as Cortisol which regulates, metabolism and stress