The motor cortex located on the left side of the brain controls movement on the right side of the body. The best view of the brain's motor cortex is from a brain that has been sliced in half.

The premotor cortex is located immediately anterior to the primary motor cortex. It has many reciprocal connections to the primary motor cortex, and to the brainstem and spinal cord.

The new human brain map shows the location and function of hundreds of cell types. These cells can also be found in the motor context in mice and monkeys, according to NPR.

The cerebral cortex, also known as gray matter, is your brain’s outermost layer and is located above the cerebrum. Learn more about its vital functions. Skip to main content ...

According to Carnegie Mellon neuroscientists, there is a clear leader and sidekick when it comes to generating movements. During purposeful movement, whether reaching for a cookie or walking around ...

Neurons in the brain's motor cortex previously thought of as active mainly during hand and arm movements also light up during speech in a way that is similar to patterns of brain activity linked ...

To look into this process more closely, Ganguly set rats on a task to reach for pellets. Then, the team looked at their brain activity in three regions during NREM sleep: the hippocampus, which is the ...

The team focused on the motor cortex, located at the back of the frontal lobe, and found increased plasticity and excitability among neurons in this region in patients with insomnia. Their findings, ...

Striosomal S-D1 and S-D2 populations form parallel pathways to dopamine-containing nigral neurons. Credit: Current Biology (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.09.070 ...

The motor cortex located on the left side of the brain controls movement on the right side of the body. The best view of the brain's motor cortex is from a brain that has been sliced in half. The ...