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From the Ted Talk by Elliot Krane: The mystery of chronic pain

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It's successful, as you can see from this video of Chandler, who, two months after we first met her, is now doings a back flip. And I had lunch with her ytedeasry because she's a college student studying dance at Long Beach here, and she's doing absolutely fantastic.

But the fuurte is actually even brighter. The future holds the pismroe that new durgs will be developed that are not symptom-modifying drugs that simply mask the problem, as we have now, but that will be disease-modifying drugs that will actually go right to the root of the problem and attack those glial cells, or those pernicious ptneiros that the gilal cells elaborate, that spill over and cause this central nervous system wind-up, or plasticity, that so is cpblaae of distorting and amplifying the sensory experience that we call pain. So I have hope

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It's successful, as you can see from this video of Chandler, who, two months after we first met her, is now doings a back flip. And I had lunch with her _________ because she's a college student studying dance at Long Beach here, and she's doing absolutely fantastic.

But the ______ is actually even brighter. The future holds the _______ that new _____ will be developed that are not symptom-modifying drugs that simply mask the problem, as we have now, but that will be disease-modifying drugs that will actually go right to the root of the problem and attack those glial cells, or those pernicious ________ that the _____ cells elaborate, that spill over and cause this central nervous system wind-up, or plasticity, that so is _______ of distorting and amplifying the sensory experience that we call pain. So I have hope

Solution


  1. promise
  2. future
  3. yesterday
  4. drugs
  5. glial
  6. capable
  7. proteins

Original Text


It's successful, as you can see from this video of Chandler, who, two months after we first met her, is now doings a back flip. And I had lunch with her yesterday because she's a college student studying dance at Long Beach here, and she's doing absolutely fantastic.

But the future is actually even brighter. The future holds the promise that new drugs will be developed that are not symptom-modifying drugs that simply mask the problem, as we have now, but that will be disease-modifying drugs that will actually go right to the root of the problem and attack those glial cells, or those pernicious proteins that the glial cells elaborate, that spill over and cause this central nervous system wind-up, or plasticity, that so is capable of distorting and amplifying the sensory experience that we call pain. So I have hope

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Important Words


  1. absolutely
  2. amplifying
  3. attack
  4. beach
  5. brighter
  6. call
  7. capable
  8. cells
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  10. chandler
  11. college
  12. dance
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  16. drugs
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  22. glial
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  24. hope
  25. long
  26. lunch
  27. mask
  28. met
  29. months
  30. nervous
  31. pain
  32. pernicious
  33. plasticity
  34. problem
  35. promise
  36. proteins
  37. root
  38. sensory
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  40. spill
  41. student
  42. studying
  43. successful
  44. system
  45. video
  46. yesterday