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From the Ted Talk by Kay M. Tye: What investigating neural pathways can reveal about mental health

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(Laughter)

This seemingly fnzrieed behavior is about to escalate into something I find really incredible. It's kind of tpripy, actually. Ready? It's right here. See, he picks up his hands as if he is eating a picee of food, but there's nothing there, he's not holding anything. So this ciriuct is sufficient to drive feeding behavior in the abcnese of hnuger, even in the absence of food. I can't know for sure how this mouse is feeling, but I speculate these neurons drive craving based on the behaviors we elicit when we target this pathway. Turn the lhigt back off — animal's back to normal. When we silence this pathway, we can suppress and reduce compulsive overeating without altering hunger-driven feeding.

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This seemingly ________ behavior is about to escalate into something I find really incredible. It's kind of ______, actually. Ready? It's right here. See, he picks up his hands as if he is eating a _____ of food, but there's nothing there, he's not holding anything. So this _______ is sufficient to drive feeding behavior in the _______ of ______, even in the absence of food. I can't know for sure how this mouse is feeling, but I speculate these neurons drive craving based on the behaviors we elicit when we target this pathway. Turn the _____ back off — animal's back to normal. When we silence this pathway, we can suppress and reduce compulsive overeating without altering hunger-driven feeding.

Solution


  1. hunger
  2. trippy
  3. absence
  4. piece
  5. light
  6. frenzied
  7. circuit

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(Laughter)

This seemingly frenzied behavior is about to escalate into something I find really incredible. It's kind of trippy, actually. Ready? It's right here. See, he picks up his hands as if he is eating a piece of food, but there's nothing there, he's not holding anything. So this circuit is sufficient to drive feeding behavior in the absence of hunger, even in the absence of food. I can't know for sure how this mouse is feeling, but I speculate these neurons drive craving based on the behaviors we elicit when we target this pathway. Turn the light back off — animal's back to normal. When we silence this pathway, we can suppress and reduce compulsive overeating without altering hunger-driven feeding.

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