Research Project Outline This study aims to elucidate the neural mechanisms that underlie voluntary motor control driven by networks linking the motor-related areas in the cerebral cortex, cerebellum, ...

The cortico-basal ganglia-thalamocortical motor loop is a system of neural circuits that connect cortical and subcortical (i.e., below the cerebral cortex) brain regions.

Cerebellum plays a more significant role in influencing dopamine neurons than previously recognized, elucidating a mysterious pathway connecting the basal ganglia's reward center to the cerebellum ...

The Cerebellum and Basal Ganglia: Separate but Interconnected We've known for decades that the cerebellum helps to control and coordinate voluntary movements. Fluidity and grace when playing ...

This involvement in both motor coordination and reward suggests the cerebellum has something important in common with the basal ganglia, a dopamine-driven region of the midbrain that handles ...

Dysfunctions of the basal ganglia-cerebellar-thalamo-cortical system produce motor tics in Tourette syndrome. PLOS Computational Biology, 2017; 13 (3): e1005395 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005395 ...

Basal Ganglia and Cerebellar Calcifications: Axial CT scans. Note the prominent calcifications in the bilateral basal ganglia and cerebellum. This pattern of calcifications can be idiopathic ...

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