Fandango is a lively couples dance from Spain, usually in triple metre, traditionally accompanied by guitars, castanets, or hand-clapping (palmas in Spanish). Fandango can both be sung and danced. Sung fandango is usually bipartite: it has an instrumental introduction followed by variaciones. Sung fandango usually follows the structure of cante that consist of four or five octosyllabic verses (coplas) or musical phrases (tercios).
Epinephrine (also known as adrenaline) is released by the adrenaline glands and is responsible for the regulation of bodyâs âfight or flightâ response. It regulates the transfer of nerve signals between neurons and the body cells and increases the rate and strength of cardiac contraction.
Another relative of norepinephrine and epinephrine is dopamine, discovered to be a neurotransmitter in the 1950s by another Swede, Arvid Carlsson. It is an inhibitory neurotransmitter, meaning that when it finds its way to its receptor sites, it blocks the tendency of that neuron to fire. Dopamine is strongly associated with reward mechanisms in the brain. Drugs like cocaine, opium, heroin, and alcohol increase the levels of dopamine, as does nicotine.