This review aims to relate recent findings describing the role and neural connectivity of the basal ganglia to the clinical neuropsychiatry of basal ganglia movement disorders and to the role of basal ganglia disturbances in “psychiatric”’ states. Articles relating to the relevant topics were initially collected through MEDLINE and papers relating to the clinical conditions discussed were also ...

C l i n M e d International Library Citation: Zaheer F, Sudhakar P, Escott E, Cambi F (2014) Contralateral Basal Ganglia Atrophy in Acquired Hemichorea-Hemiballism. Int J Neurol Neurother 1:004 Received: September 06, 2014: Accepted: October 17, 2014: Published: October 20, 2014 Copyright: © 2014 Zaheer F. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attrib...

Progress in our understanding of the mechanisms underlying the cardinal motor abnormalities of Parkinson’s disease (PD), in particular akinesia and bradykinesia and their treatment, has been remarkable. Notable accomplishments include insights into the functional organization of the basal ganglia and their place in the motor system as components of a family of parallel cortico-subcortical circu...

The basal ganglia, said Kinnear-Wilson in the 1920s, have all the clarity of a dark basement. And so it has remained for the better part of a century. There are now major new ideas about what these deeplying structures in the forebrain may be doing. Lesions of the basal ganglia lead to devastating motor disorders, including Parkinson’s disease and Huntington’s disease. In addition, the basal ga...

In this review, the value of functional imaging for providing insight into the role of the basal ganglia in motor control is reviewed. Brain activation findings in normal subjects and Parkinson's disease patients are examined and evidence supporting the existence for functionally independent distributed basal ganglia-frontal loops is presented. It is argued that the basal ganglia probably act t...

The cortex constituting Broca’s area does not exist in isolation. Rather, like other cortical regions, Broca’s area is connected to other brain structures, which likely play closely related functional roles. This paper focuses on the basal ganglia, a set of subcortical structures that project through topographically organized “channels” via the thalamus to different frontal regions. It is hypot...

Though many causes have been considered from mental or anatomical viewpoint, the mechanism of stuttering is not known yet. One candidate for the stuttering occurrence is a dysfunction of basal ganglia. However the detailed relation between the basal ganglia dysfunction and the stuttering is not understood. In this study, based on anatomical, physiological and clinical evidences, we propose a fu...

Please cite this article as: Aurore Curie, Gaëlle Friocourt, Vincent des Portes, Alice Roy, Tatjana Nazir, Amandine Brun, Anne Cheylus, Pascale Marcorelles, Kalliroi Retzepi, Nasim Maleki, Gérald Bussy, Yves Paulignan, Anne Reboul, Danielle Ibarrola, Jian Kong, Nouchine Hadjikhani, Annie Laquerrière, Randy L. Gollub , Basal ganglia involvement in ARX patients: The reason for ARX patients very s...

This review aims to relate recent findings describing the role and neural connectivity of the basal ganglia to the clinical neuropsychiatry of basal ganglia movement disorders and to the role of basal ganglia disturbances in “psychiatric”’ states. Articles relating to the relevant topics were initially collected through MEDLINE and papers relating to the clinical conditions discussed were also ...