Thousands of our daily activities, from making coffee to taking a walk to saying hello to a neighbor, are made possible through an ancient collection of brain structures tucked away near the center of ...

Researchers at UC San Diego and Columbia University mapped the complete set of brain-wide outputs from a part of the brain called the basal ganglia. Here, individual neurons receive parcels of input ...

Neurons deep in the brain not only help to initiate movement-they also actively suppress it, and with astonishing precision. This is the conclusion of a new study by researchers at the University of ...

Smooth movements require coordinated control of muscles. Even a simple reaching movement involves coordinated movements of his/her shoulder, arm, wrist and fingers, which are controlled by temporally ...

Neurons deep in the brain not only help to initiate movement -- they also actively suppress it, and with astonishing precision. The findings are especially relevant for better understanding ...

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Brain activity and breathing rhythms decouple during deep sleep, offering new insights into Parkinson's and anesthesia.

Researchers have applied a chemogenetic tool in macaque monkeys and suppressed the subthalamic nucleus, a part of the basal ganglia circuitry. The chemogenetic suppression induced unstable movements.

UC San Diego researchers were among the scientists to generate a map of connectivity from a part of the brain responsible for many motor and behavioral functions, which may grant greater insight on ...