Although cerebellar mechanisms are vital to maintain accuracy during complex movements and to calibrate simple reflexes, recent in vitro studies have called into question the widely held view that ...

The sense of touch is used by animals to build a spatial representation of the surrounding environment. A large fraction of the tactile information is acquired in an active context, while the body is ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 116, No. 10 (March 5, 2019), pp. 4661-4670 (10 pages) The development of the cerebellum depends on intricate ...

New research reveals that trait shyness is linked to reduced spontaneous neural activity in the cerebellum, a brain region traditionally associated with motor control but increasingly recognized for ...

In a recent study published in Nature Neuroscience, a group of researchers explored how the cerebellum directly affects dopamine release in the substantia nigra compacta (SNc). While the cerebellum's ...

As we go about our daily lives, we are constantly bombarded by a steady stream of sensory information. Take a typical morning routine for example- roused from sleep by a shrill alarm, the strong aroma ...

Dr Richard Apps leads the Sensorimotor Control Group in the Department of Physiology. His group uses a range of neuroscience techniques to study brain circuits involved in the control of movement. We ...

Cerebellum in orange. Cerebellar means "relating to the cerebellum." It's the sister word to cerebral, which means "relating to the cerebrum." Source: Sebastian Kaulitzki / Shutterstock ...

BRONX, NY--(January 17, 2019)--In a study published online today in the journal Science, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, part of Montefiore, prove for the first time that the brain ...

A new study identifies genome variants and pathways that contribute to composing and arranging in musically trained individuals. The study estimates the inherited proportion as 30% for these ...

Scientists have figured out why some people with a gene that causes dystonia never get symptoms and others with the same mutation are disabled by the abnormal movements. Scientists tried creating a ...