The basal ganglia are a set of subcortical structures ... function through reinforcement learning and action selection. Its input structure, the striatum, receives a dense dopaminergic input ...

The songbird vocal motor nucleus HVC contains cells that project to the basal ganglia, the auditory system, or downstream vocal motor structures. In this fundamental study, the authors conduct ...

When you try to solve a math problem in your head or remember the things on your grocery list, you’re engaging in a complex ...

The biological roots of Tourette disorder occur in the basal ganglia, structures deep in the brain involved in the control of ...

For decades, most neuroscientists thought that one area of the brain, the basal ganglia, was responsible for action selection and another area, the motor cortex, for action specification. Now, using a ...

We're all familiar with Pavlovian conditioning, in which a reward-anticipatory behavior follows a reward-predicting stimulus. Perhaps you experience it yourself when passing a cafe or restaurant and ...

Considering taking supplements to treat biotin thiamine responsive basal ganglia disease? Below is a list of common natural remedies used to treat or reduce the symptoms of biotin thiamine ...

Previous studies have found volume reductions in the basal ganglia portions of these circuits in patients with Tourette syndrome. To investigate whether thinning in sensorimotor cortices is ...