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

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

Original Article from The New England Journal of Medicine — Diagram of the Arterial Circulation of the Basal Ganglia ...

Two lateral striatal subregions integrate the acquisition of stimulus-based decision-making in spatiotemporally and functionally different manners, challenging the prior model through a dominance ...

Editor's evaluation This study provides fundamental findings that challenge the traditional view of segregated cerebellar and basal ganglia circuits in the motor thalamus, revealing a novel ...

Baxter, L.R. (2003) Basal Ganglia Systems in Ritualistic Social Displays Reptiles and Humans; Function and Illness. Physiology & Behavior, 79, 451-460.

The parts of the basal ganglia that lie in the limbic region contribute to emotional behaviors and thinking. They also influence the brain’s reward system and help with reinforcement, which can ...

Basal ganglia calcification is when calcium deposits form in your brain. It can potentially cause a variety of neurological symptoms and can affect mood, perceptions, and behavior.

Basal ganglia calcification is a very rare condition that happens when calcium builds up in your brain, usually in the basal ganglia, the part of your brain that helps control movement. Other ...

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 ...

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 ...