If it decides yes, your brain's motor cortex, a small area that exists on the outer part of your brain, calls for messages to be sent through your spinal cord and down your arm to the muscles that ...

There are also projections to and from the brainstem, cortical areas and reward pathways, all of which influence food intake. The challenge at present is to understand the complexity of these ...

The striate cortex is the first cortical visual area that receives input from the lateral geniculate nucleus in the thalamus. How animals generate perceptual decisions remains poorly understood.

They enrolled 36 patients with unilateral chronic neuropathic pain that occurred in the face or hand, and applied 10 Hz rTMS over cortical areas that corresponded to the face, hand or arm of the ...