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

A new brain imaging study has found that people who regularly use cannabis show reduced spontaneous activity in a key motor control region of the brain. While their actual task performance did not ...

Beijing Normal University-led researchers have identified specific high-order thalamic nuclei that drive human conscious ...

Within the human brain, movement is coordinated by a brain region called the striatum, which sends instructions to motor neurons in the brain. Those instructions are conveyed by two pathways, one ...

During purposeful movement, whether reaching for a cookie or walking around your house, two parts of the brain are vital. The motor cortex — located around where sunglasses might sit on top of the ...

The motor cortex — located around where sunglasses might sit on top of the head — is connected with the striatum, a region deep on the inside of the brain that is affected by Parkinson's disease.

Carnegie Mellon University neuroscientists have published a paper in Neuron that shows the motor cortex is involved with conscious movement.

To dissect this relationship, we quantified motor behavior and sub-second acetylcholine dynamics in primary somatosensory and auditory cortex during rewarded sensory detection and discrimination tasks ...

Researchers mapped the functional organization of the motor cortex (M1) of the human brain.

While we sleep, our brains process our daily actions to create motor memory, which makes physical acts such as throwing a basketball subconscious.

But in recent years a more complex picture has emerged. 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 ...