Rhonda Patrick· PhD
where is the circuit problems that are underlying these behavioral issues well we can take the motor circuit as an example and in the motor circuitry we know that there's a couple big areas of circuits that are involved in motor control the biggest one we talk about is out of the basal ganglia right so the basal ganglia to the cortex cortical striatal and that's essentially responsible for what we call automaticity automatic movements so this is movements that have been learned balanced over time i mean so you don't come out of your you know mom's you know womb like walking around and dancing right so you have to practice this over time and so there's this element of practice multiple practices that get you good dopamine is actually important for uh facilitating synaptic plasticity there and there's a couple forms that are developing uh in that stratum ltd is the predominant form that's thought to be occurring there in the stratum particularly motor control