If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. Learn more. Every time you reach for your coffee mug, a neuroscientific mystery takes shape. Moments before you voluntarily ...

Researchers at McGill University have uncovered a surprising twist in how dopamine affects movement, overturning a ...

Researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin are examining how music can be used as a tool to restore walking movement in patients after a spinal cord injury. Dr. Kajana Satkunendrarajah discovered ...

A research team led by McGill University has taken a close look at a long-standing idea about Parkinson’s disease and found ...

The zebrafish brain, though simpler than its human counterpart, is a complex network of neurons that engage in a ceaseless dance of electrical activity. What if this neural ballet could reveal the ...

Two Northwestern University neuroscientists have identified the neurochemical signal likely missing in Parkinson's disease by being the first to discover two distinctly different kinds of neurons that ...

SNr neurons in the midbrain send precise signals to control movement. Their activity determines which movements actions are initiated or inhibited. Neurons deep in the brain not only help to initiate ...

Trying to finish your homework while the big game is on TV? "Visual-movement" neurons in the front of your brain can help you stay focused, according to a new study from neuroscientists in the ...

Altering a protein in the neurons that coordinate a rattlesnake’s movement made a slow slither neuron more like a speedy rattle neuron, showing one way evolution can generate new ways of moving. In ...

Today I return to the question I asked in my May post: what would neuroscientists say about the idea that dancing evolved as a practice for helping people exercise the very capacity that enabled them ...

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