In other words, the cerebellum helped orchestrate the motor commands from the cerebral cortex, the baseball glove–shaped structure that makes up most of the human brain and the organ’s master ...

Beneath the Cortex Buried in the core of the brain are a collection of structures that serve a variety of important functions. Some of these essential components are: The cerebellum (Latin for ...

The cerebellum is a fist-size structure tucked below the cerebral cortex—the part of the brain that we typically attribute to higher-order cognitive processes, including consciousness, language, and ...

Movement is a complex process governed by a network of neuronal circuits spread across multiple regions of the nervous system ...

The mammalian brain is an extremely complex structure both anatomically and functionally, that simultaneously integrates multiple inputs to produce an appropriate response (Sillitoe, 2007; Joyner & ...

Cerebellum Controls balance ... These two hemispheres make up the cerebral cortex. This controls most of our senses, intelligence, personality, conscious thought and high-level functions, such ...

Slow maturing of the brain’s cortex -- that helps with self-control and decision-making -- during teenage could be a reason for developing eating disorders as a young adult, according to a new ...

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 ...