Cortico-Striatal Loops

Procedural learning rewires the cerebellum and basal ganglia so skills run below awareness, turning deliberate practice into unconscious competence. See...

Repeating the same bad decisions is a striatal habit loop, not weak willpower. See how action-prediction errors and the tail...

Awareness never stops a habit because the override runs through the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex, not insight. See the three conditions...

OCD worsens because each compulsion rewires the CSTC loop through Hebbian co-firing, shifting it from ventral to dorsal striatum. See...

In OCD the orbitofrontal cortex overvalues threat, tagging ordinary thoughts as catastrophic. See how lateral OFC hyperactivity drives the compulsion...

SSRIs help only 40 to 70 percent of people with OCD. The reason is a multi-circuit CSTC pattern, not low...

A habit and an addiction run on different striatal circuits, not different points on one scale. See what separates the...

OCD is driven by a glutamate excitatory imbalance, not a willpower problem. See how cortico-striatal loops misfire, and how the...

OCD and basal ganglia: how the brain's thought filter fails, why intrusive thoughts pass through the gate, and what restores...