Although cerebellar mechanisms are vital to maintain accuracy during complex movements and to calibrate simple reflexes, recent in vitro studies have called into question the widely held view that ...

Brain-robot interfaces - apparatuses where brain activity controls the movements of a robotic device that supports a hand or limb - show promise in rehabilitating paralyzed stroke patients. Yet the ...

The experimental therapy M102 slowed disease progression in preclinical experiments done in mouse and cell models of ALS, a ...

When a movement that has already been initiated must be suddenly stopped, a “hyperdirect” subthalamic nucleus pathway is called upon to override the primary motor control systems of the cerebral ...

Your nerves transmit messages within the brain, as well as among the brain, spinal cord, and the body. In order to do this, they use a combination of electrical and chemical signaling. Motor neurons ...

Brain-robot interfaces — apparatuses where brain activity controls the movements of a robotic device that supports a hand or limb — show promise in rehabilitating paralyzed stroke patients. Yet the ...

Movement is a complex process governed by a network of neuronal circuits spread across multiple regions of the nervous system ...

New research identifies a motor pathway between the forebrain and brainstem that works like a dimmer switch to regulate swimming speed in the sea lamprey -- a primitive, jawless fish with an eel-like ...

Niigata, Japan – our movements are controlled by multiple neural pathways that connect the brain and spinal cord. In particular, neurons in the cerebral cortex send commands to the motor neurons in ...

In a recent study published in Nature Neuroscience, a group of researchers explored how the cerebellum directly affects dopamine release in the substantia nigra compacta (SNc). While the cerebellum's ...