Category: Circuits
- Ready, Set…Go! Brain Circuit That Triggers the Execution of Planned Movement Discovered ()
Summary: Researchers have identified a neural circuit that helps suppress the execution of planned actions in response to specific cues. Source: Max Planck Florida Planned movement is essential to our daily lives, and it often requires delayed execution. As children, we stood crouched and ready but waited for the shout of “GO!” before sprinting from […]
- An expanding molecular toolbox untangles neural circuits ()
Life is full of nervous reactions — a head snaps towards a voice, leg muscles tense at the sound of a starting gun and thirsty mice scamper towards a squirt of water when trained to respond to a certain tone. The mechanisms behind such reward-related behaviours are notoriously difficult to unpick. Nerve cells often snake […]