For nearly a century, scientists have recognized that different regions of the brain’s cortex are responsible for controlling various body ... movements are controlled and learned at the level of ...

For nearly a century, scientists have known that different parts of the human brain's cortex control different body movements. This fundamental discovery dates to the 1930s, when neurosurgeons used ...

Beginning in the 1940s, Canadian brain surgeon Wilder Penfield mapped the brain's motor cortex—the area that controls the movement of your body's muscles. He did this by applying mild electric ...

The resulting theory is radical, with elements that make little connection to a large body ... the motor cortex is a two-dimensional map representing statistics of natural movements, which ...

While some regions of the motor cortex were activated when participants moved just one body part, a finding that suggests they’re directly linked to that movement or body part, these strange cortical ...

Discover how neuromuscular retraining techniques reprogram movement patterns to resolve chronic pain, offering longer-lasting ...

Walking backward fundamentally disrupts the brain’s deeply ingrained movement patterns. From early childhood, humans develop ...

The research involved studying movement control in mice using a combination of optogenetics (controlling neural activity with ...

Using a novel system, researchers found that a part of the basal ganglia called the striatum is not involved in action selection as previously thought. Instead, the striatum and the motor cortex work ...