Okazaki, Japan – Parkinson’s disease is characterized by motor symptoms, such as trembling hands, muscle stiffness, and difficulty in initiation of movements, and it affects around 1% of people over ...

Smooth movements require coordinated control of muscles. Even a simple reaching movement involves coordinated movements of his/her shoulder, arm, wrist and fingers, which are controlled by temporally ...

CARY, N.C. (WTVD) -- At 11 weeks old Stevie Kestner was diagnosed with Biotin-thiamine-responsive basal ganglia disease, a rare condition that only affects a reported 50 people in the world. Before ...

Neurons deep in the brain not only help to initiate movement-they also actively suppress it, and with astonishing precision. This is the conclusion of a new study by researchers at the University of ...

The basal ganglia play a critical role in regulating movement, cognitive functions and emotional processing. Disruptions within these subcortical nuclei are increasingly attributed to defects in ...

Researchers have applied a chemogenetic tool in macaque monkeys and suppressed the subthalamic nucleus, a part of the basal ganglia circuitry. The chemogenetic suppression induced unstable movements.