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Gene mutation linked to Tourette syndrome
So much of what we do, we do on autopilot—whether tying our shoes or driving the same route to work. Functioning on autopilot frees our attention for other things, but it can also entrap us in inflexible and uncontrollable behaviors that assume lives of their own, said Christopher Pittenger, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of psychiatry and in the Child Study Center and assistant professor of psychology, who studies how the brain’s cortical-basal ganglia circuits help to automate routine behavi
Source: Yale Medicine Magazine