Role of Individual Basal Ganglia Nuclei in Force Amplitude Generation

Role of individual basal ganglia nuclei in force amplitude generation.

The basal ganglia-thalamo-cortical loop is an important neural circuit that regulates motor control. A key parameter that the nervous system regulates is the level of force to exert against an object during tasks such as grasping. Previous studies indicate that the basal ganglia do not exhibit increased activity with increasing amplitude of force, although these conclusions are based mainly on ...

Role of Basal Ganglia in Swallowing Process: A Systematic Review

Objectives: The basal ganglia (BG) controls different patterns of behavior by receiving inputs from sensory-motor and pre-motor cortex and projecting it to pre-frontal, pre-motor and supplementary motor areas. As the exact role of BG in swallowing process has not been fully determined, we aimed at reviewing the published data on neurological control in the swallowing technique to have a better ...

The basal ganglia network mediates the planning of movement amplitude.

This study addresses the hypothesis that the basal ganglia (BG) are involved specifically in the planning of movement amplitude (or covariates). Although often advanced, based on observations that Parkinson's disease (PD) patients exhibit hypokinesia in the absence of significant directional errors, this hypothesis has been challenged by a recent alternative, that parkinsonian hypometria could ...

The Integrative Role of the Basal Ganglia

A Model of Basal Ganglia in Saccade Generation

" Dynamics and function of a CA1 model of the hippocampus during theta and ripples " Vassilis Cutsuridis and Michael Hasselmo