In a bid for the body to continually maintain a state of constancy, it react to adjust every stress or hurt posed to it by making some physical, biological, biochemical, and psychological moves. The sign of this restoration, which varies in degree or intensity, is known as General Adaptive Syndrome (GAS). The three known phases of the General Adaptation Syndrome includes: the Alarm, the Resistance, and the Exhaustion phases. In Alarm Phase, a brain stressor detects imbalance in the body.
This stimulates the autonomic nervous system, assisted by the hypothalamus to increase adrenaline release and control other body functions towards lessening the stressor effect. This alarm phase is increased in response when body is tired. When resistance phase comes to play, it regulates hyper-activity of the alarm phase and brings all the increase to control e. g. regulating excessive increase in adrenaline hormone after adjusting the body to adapt to the posed stress.
While in exhaustion phase, this phase is recorded when there has been an overwhelming alarm phase response. The body losses to the imbalance and unhealthy state of health set in. Among these trios, the Alarm response is found the most intense since it initiates the adaptation for the other responses to act upon. Functions of the Frontal Lobes Summarily, frontal lobes control the conscious mind, damage of which cause mood disorder. This is categorized into “construct-led, multi-process and the single-process theories by the experts” (Burgess, 2003).
In single process, a thesis submits “that malfunction of a single-process indicates dysexecutive symptoms” (Burgess, 2003, p. 309). The executive function includes the management of the cognitive reasoning ability, evaluating and picking from choices et cetera. Frontal lobes perform a multi-purpose process that registers events of daily activities into the subconscious mind.
Reference Burgess, Simons, Burke, Rolls’ stimulus-reward approach and Stuss’s anterior attention functions 2003-7