# Neuroscientists identify a brain circuit that helps break complex decisions

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**Created:** [May 19, 2019, 10:04pm UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/neuroscientists-identify-a-brain-circuit-that-helps-break-complex-decisions/6026 "2019-05-19T22:04:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jack\_Cole](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.numenta.org/jack_cole/32/4108_2.png) [@Jack\_Cole](https://discourse.numenta.org/u/Jack_Cole)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2019, 10:04pm UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/neuroscientists-identify-a-brain-circuit-that-helps-break-complex-decisions/6026/1 "2019-05-19T22:04:01Z")

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> **[Neuroscientists identify a brain circuit that helps break complex decisions...](https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-05-neuroscientists-brain-circuit-complex-decisions.html)**
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> When making a complex decision, we often break the problem down into a series of smaller decisions. For example, when deciding how to treat a patient, a doctor may go through a hierarchy of steps—choosing a diagnostic test, interpreting the results,...

I think one advantage of other NN approaches compared with HTM is the implementation of decisions. One could characterize a DNN that performs classification as a perceptual-decision network. The research in the link above might provide some clues for implementing a decision network based on HTM.

Jack