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Circuit in sentence

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In fact, it makes so much sense that we can construct an electronic toy circuit that simulates the behavior of the fly.
In this electronic toy circuit, the mushroom body neurons are symbolized by the vertical bank of blue LEDs in the center of the board.
But if any of you have studied electrical engineering, we can also create a short circuit.
And once you have the basics, we can make a slightly more complicated circuit.
We call this our sushi circuit.
We don't usually think of our kitchen as an electrical engineering lab or little kids as circuit designers, but maybe we should.
And they've told us that this brain is an incredibly complicated circuit made out of hundreds of billions of cells called neurons.
So how are we going to figure out what this circuit does?
Ideally, we could go through this circuit and turn these different kinds of cell on and off and see whether we could figure out which ones contribute to certain functions and which ones go wrong in certain pathologies.
It would also allow us to have the ultraprecise control we need to fix the circuit computations that have gone awry.
We took out a whole circuit in the hotel and just about put on the fire alarm.
If these dots were cars going on a racing circuit, you would have absolutely no idea what's going on.
I may also be interested in knowing how focused I am, so I can put my level of attention into the circuit board on the other side.
And the more focused my brain is, the more the circuit board is going to surge with energy.
So one of the features that I think is important about our work is that our hardware, on top of being made with love in Italy — as you can see from the back of the circuit — (Laughter) is that it's open, so we publish all the design files for the circuit online, so you can download it and you can actually use it to make something, or to modify, to learn.
The work they did was very, very high art, and stars came along like Laurie Anderson and Merce Cunningham and Robert Lepage who made work for this circuit, and you had these seminal shows like "The Mahabharata" and the monumental "Einstein on the Beach."
And by raising levels of serotonin, you suppress the dopamine circuit.
Not only do they suppress the dopamine circuit, but they kill the sex drive.
So it's a really slow process, it's really expensive, and the outcome of that process, namely electronic circuit boards, are limited in all sorts of kind of interesting ways.
But we know much less about the circuit basis of psychiatric disorders because of the overwhelming dominance of this chemical imbalance hypothesis.
So conductive ink allows us to paint circuits instead of using the traditional printed circuit boards or wires.
And these are all areas which are fairly reliably known to be part of what's called a "theory of mind" circuit, or "mentalizing circuit."
That is, it's a circuit that's used to imagine what other people might do.
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.
So when these neurons are in the motor circuit, you get dysfunction in the movement system, and you get things like Parkinson's disease.
When the malfunction is in a circuit that regulates your mood, you get things like depression, and when it is in a circuit that controls your memory and cognitive function, then you get things like Alzheimer's disease.
I've shown you that we can use it to treat a mood circuit in cases of depression.
So we've placed electrodes within this circuit in an area of the brain called the fornix, which is the highway in and out of this memory circuit, with the idea to see if we can turn on this memory circuit, and whether that can, in turn, help these patients with Alzheimer's disease.
This is a little piano circuit right in here, and this is an ordinary paintbrush that I smashed it together with.
What's awesome is what happens when you give the piano circuit to people.
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