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From the Ted Talk by David Anderson: Your brain is more than a bag of chemicals

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So these results make me and my colleagues more cinevcond than ever that the bairn is not a bag of chemical soup, and it's a mtkisae to try to treat complex psychiatric disorders just by caihngng the flavor of the soup. What we need to do is to use our ingenuity and our sineciftic knowledge to try to design a new generation of treatments that are targeted to specific neurons and specific regions of the brain that are affected in particular psychiatric disorders. If we can do that, we may be able to cure these disorders without the unpleasant side effects, putting the oil back in our mental engines, just where it's neeedd. Thank you very much.

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So these results make me and my colleagues more _________ than ever that the _____ is not a bag of chemical soup, and it's a _______ to try to treat complex psychiatric disorders just by ________ the flavor of the soup. What we need to do is to use our ingenuity and our __________ knowledge to try to design a new generation of treatments that are targeted to specific neurons and specific regions of the brain that are affected in particular psychiatric disorders. If we can do that, we may be able to cure these disorders without the unpleasant side effects, putting the oil back in our mental engines, just where it's ______. Thank you very much.

Solution


  1. convinced
  2. mistake
  3. needed
  4. changing
  5. brain
  6. scientific

Original Text


So these results make me and my colleagues more convinced than ever that the brain is not a bag of chemical soup, and it's a mistake to try to treat complex psychiatric disorders just by changing the flavor of the soup. What we need to do is to use our ingenuity and our scientific knowledge to try to design a new generation of treatments that are targeted to specific neurons and specific regions of the brain that are affected in particular psychiatric disorders. If we can do that, we may be able to cure these disorders without the unpleasant side effects, putting the oil back in our mental engines, just where it's needed. Thank you very much.

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Important Words


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