Andrew Huberman· PhD
The cortex can't really do what it needs to do without the help of the basal ganglia and vice versa. So they're really intertwined.
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The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
The cortex can't really do what it needs to do without the help of the basal ganglia and vice versa. So they're really intertwined.
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My sense is that, this system is key for implementing the plans that get cooked up in the cortex, but they also influence the plans that the cortex is dishing out because this is a major source of information to the cortex.