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From the Ted Talk by Thomas Insel: Toward a new understanding of mental illness

Unscramble the Blue Letters


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Why does this matter? Well first because, for brain disorders, ________ is the last thing to change. We know that for Alzheimer's, for Parkinson's, for Huntington's. There are changes in the brain a decade or more before you see the first signs of a behavioral change. The tools that we have now allow us to ______ these brain changes much _______, long before the ________ emerge. But most important, go back to where we started. The good-news stories in ________ are early detection, early intervention. If we waited until the _____ attack, we would be sacrificing 1.1 million lives every year in this country to heart disease. That is precisely what we do today when we decide that everybody with one of these brain disorders, brain _______ disorders, has a behavioral ________. We wait until the behavior becomes manifest. That's not early detection. That's not early intervention.

Solution


  1. behavior
  2. heart
  3. disorder
  4. earlier
  5. medicine
  6. symptoms
  7. detect
  8. circuit

Original Text


Why does this matter? Well first because, for brain disorders, behavior is the last thing to change. We know that for Alzheimer's, for Parkinson's, for Huntington's. There are changes in the brain a decade or more before you see the first signs of a behavioral change. The tools that we have now allow us to detect these brain changes much earlier, long before the symptoms emerge. But most important, go back to where we started. The good-news stories in medicine are early detection, early intervention. If we waited until the heart attack, we would be sacrificing 1.1 million lives every year in this country to heart disease. That is precisely what we do today when we decide that everybody with one of these brain disorders, brain circuit disorders, has a behavioral disorder. We wait until the behavior becomes manifest. That's not early detection. That's not early intervention.

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