Cerebellar patients exhibit various motor impairments, but the sequence of primary and compensatory processes leading to these deficits remains unclear. To investigate this, we reversibly blocked ...
The motor cortex is the region of the cerebral cortex including the primary motor, premotor and supplementary motor cortices that is responsible for planning and executing actions. Skill ...
"We previously found that motor cortex is not necessary to generate highly automatized learned skills or motor sequences," Bence P. Ölveczky, senior author of the paper, told Medical Xpress.
In the new study, the research team found that the motor cortex -- the brain region responsible for controlling movement -- becomes essentially "disconnected" during dyskinetic episodes.