When a movement that has already been initiated must be suddenly stopped, a “hyperdirect” subthalamic nucleus pathway is called upon to override the primary motor control systems of the cerebral ...

New findings published in the journal Nature Neuroscience have shed light on a mysterious pathway between the reward center of the brain that is key to how we form habits, known as the basal ganglia, ...

Stopping an already initiated but inappropriate response is critical to adaptive behavior in humans, and a brain circuit involving the inferior frontal cortex, the presupplementary motor area, and the ...