Two neural circuits in the basal ganglia control activity in the SNr: one from D1 neurons in the striatum, which is implicated in increasing movement as well as motor and reward systems, and one ...

News Release 16-Aug-2021 Impaired information flow through the basal ganglia is responsible for Parkinson’s disease symptoms Peer-Reviewed Publication National Institute for Physiological Sciences ...

The basal ganglia then prevents the movement. The communication between these areas of the brain has been shown to be disrupted in people with substance use disorders, helping to explain the ...

Neuroscientists have unearthed a previously unknown dopamine -driven neural pathway between the cerebellum (Latin for "little brain") and reward centers in the basal ganglia that appears to fuel ...

The basal ganglia, a group of midbrain nuclei which Nadim describes as the “brain’s go-no-go system” for determining whether we initiate or suppress movement, is also involved in reward ...

Evans said that teasing out the connections between the basal ganglia and the brainstem is a stepping stone to improving deep brain stimulation, which can help alleviate some symptoms in Parkinson’s ...

Sweat covers Isaac Barnes’s face under his beekeeper’s veil as he hauls boxes of honeycomb from his hives to his truck. As ...

Journal reference: McElvain, L.E., et al. (2021) Specific populations of basal ganglia output neurons target distinct brain stem areas while collateralizing throughout the diencephalon.