{"id":225620,"date":"2025-11-22T01:02:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T07:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/brain-circuit-that-forces-behavior-into-repeat-mode-identified"},"modified":"2025-11-22T01:02:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T07:02:22","slug":"brain-circuit-that-forces-behavior-into-repeat-mode-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/brain-circuit-that-forces-behavior-into-repeat-mode-identified","title":{"rendered":"Brain Circuit That Forces Behavior Into \u201cRepeat Mode\u201d Identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brain-circuit-that-forces-behavior-into-repeat-mode-identified.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A: Mice show compulsive digging and sniffing even when rewards are available, reflecting a negative internal state.<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"\">Q: Can shutting down the circuit stop the compulsive behavior?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: Yes, inhibiting the hypothalamus\u2013habenula relay removes the repetitive behavior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A: Mice show compulsive digging and sniffing even when rewards are available, reflecting a negative internal state. Q: Can shutting down the circuit stop the compulsive behavior? A: Yes, inhibiting the hypothalamus\u2013habenula relay removes the repetitive behavior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}