Putting your weight into opening a door (say, with your shoulder) is easier than using your hands. Sliding heavy cardboard ...

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Neurons deep in the brain not only help to initiate movement-they also actively suppress it, and with astonishing precision.

Contradicting long-standing beliefs, the study shows that the "indirect pathway" in the basal ganglia drives learning rather than motor control.

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The substantia nigra is a motor nucleus located in the basal ganglia of the midbrain. This brain structure contributes to the body's cognitive and motor functions by sending signals to initiate or ...

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The chemogenetic suppression induced unstable movements. In the output nucleus of the basal ganglia, the internal pallidum, neurons showed no firing rate change, but their spike train became variable.

Smooth movements require coordinated control of muscles. Even a simple reaching movement involves coordinated movements of a person's shoulder, arm, wrist and fingers, which are controlled by ...

Researchers from the National Institute for Physiological Sciences applied a chemogenetic tool in macaque monkeys and suppressed the subthalamic nucleus, a part of the basal ganglia circuitry. The ...

Experimental studies have suggested that many brain areas, including the basal ganglia (BG), contribute to procedural learning. Focusing on the basal ganglia-thalamo-cortical (BG-TC) system, we ...

The origins of stuttering may be rooted in cortico-basal ganglia-thalamocortical motor loop anomalies that affect speech initiation.