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 ...

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.

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, and basal ganglia. To ...