"Mischel and his team hope to identify crucial neural circuits that cut across a wide variety of ailments".
In the article "Don't", the Stanford professor Mischel examines and conducts an experiment involving children and their reactions to temptation. He gives the young children a choice whether to eat a marshmallow right away or to wait and then have two marshmallows. The students that chose to take the single marshmallow experienced problems with drugs and the law in life. Mischel wants to try and find important nerves in the brain and how they react to different situations. Mischel and his team are hoping to find connections in the nervous system that relate to illness. By examining these brain issues, the team believes they can find many problems that are caused by a flawed nervous system. By linking the brain and behavioral traits, Mischel and his team can attempt to find a cure for some of these illnesses.
This quote was the one I had difficulty understanding, and I thought you did a good job explaining it. Your examination of the biological processes in the brain was illuminating, and I believe I understand the meaning of the statement.
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