The basal ganglia, a group of subcortical nuclei, play a crucial role in decision-making by selecting actions and evaluating their outcomes 1,2.While much is known about the function of the basal ...

The cluster of neurons known as the basal ganglia is a central hub for ... the journal Neuron. ... disease and other disorders tied to the basal ganglia. With the detailed circuit map ...

In the latest issue of Neuron, a team led by Gladstone investigator Anatol Kreitzer, PhD, and Salk investigator Edward Callaway, PhD, combined mouse models with a sophisticated tracing technique—known ...

Neuron tells stem cells to grow new neurons: First piece of new brain-repair circuit identified ... which mediates motor and cognitive controls between the cortex and the complex basal ganglia.

Diseases that are associated with basal ganglia function include Parkinson's and Huntington's disease, dementia, dystonia, Tourette syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

UC San Diego researchers have generated a new map of connectivity from a part of the brain called the basal ganglia, a hub for regulating motor and behavior functions. The breadth of connections ...

A new study out of MIT has found that there are two brain circuits involved with this kind of learning and that the patterns of activity in these circuits evolve as our behaviors become more habitual.

Further mapping revealed that the striatum then sends input to a region called the globus pallidus, which is part of the basal ganglia. The basal ganglia then suppress activity in the part of the ...

High-resolution mapping technique uncovers underlying circuit architecture of the brain Date: June 27, 2013 Source: Gladstone Institutes Summary: Using an innovative brain-tracing technique ...