Basal Ganglia: Function, Location, and Their Role in Parkinson’s Disease
Explore the basal ganglia’s deep-brain nuclei, connections, direct and indirect pathways, and roles in movement, action selection, habit learning, and reward.
Explore the basal ganglia’s deep-brain nuclei, connections, direct and indirect pathways, and roles in movement, action selection, habit learning, and reward.
There’s No Single “Movement Center” in the Brain Reach for a cup, and it feels like one seamless action. It isn’t. That single motion depends on a chain of brain structures — cortex, basal ganglia, cerebellum, brainstem, and spinal cord — each doing a distinct job, none of them capable of producing the movement alone….