Your brain then decides whether or not to carry out what it has read. 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 ...

T he motor cortex is a part of the mammalian brain and is known to support the planning and control of voluntary body movements. Some past neuroscience studies, however, found that the motor ...

Researchers uncovered new findings about involuntary muscle movements that come with long-term administration of Parkinson's ...

Wilder Penfield, a pioneering brain surgeon, mapped the motor cortex using mild electric current. Wilder Penfield took the next exploratory voyage into the brain starting in the 1940s. While ...

University of Arizona researchers revealed that dyskinesia in Parkinson’s patients stems from a disconnect in the motor ...

At a time when investigating the functional anatomy of the motor cortex is all but out of fashion in favor of black-box decoders and brain-machine interfaces, it is pure joy to read about a decade ...

Researchers have uncovered a new understanding of levodopa-induced dyskinesia, a common side effect in Parkinson’s patients, ...

Researchers at the University of Arizona have shed light on a common and troubling side effect of long-term Parkinson’s ...

University of Arizona researchers have revealed new insights into one of the most common complications faced by Parkinson's disease patients: uncontrollable movements that develop after years of ...

Rodent study indicates that the motor cortex becomes disconnected during episodes of involuntary and uncontrollable movements ...