For nearly a century, scientists have known that different parts of the human brain's cortex control different body movements. This fundamental discovery dates to the 1930s, when neurosurgeons ...

Memphis' Justin J. Pearson said that this movement isn't going anywhere, and that came true. Pearson was on here now earlier today, and here's what he has to say.

There, a pair of neuroscientists organized a symposium on newly discovered functions of the cerebellum unrelated to motor control. New experimental techniques are showing that in addition to ...

The new study builds on a previous study from Dombeck’s lab, which found a population of dopamine neurons associated with movement in mice. “At the time, we thought it was just a tiny fraction ...