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Discovery : Brain circuit triggering execution of movement.

In the Journal (Scientific) Cell. The results from a collab of scientists from M.P.F. Institute (Neuroscience). Co-researchers, doctors, and senior scientists lead this project to understand the clues of our environment. It can also trigger pre-planned movements.


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The brain works like an orchestra. It should always work in a symphony, and the instruments play various diverse tunes with tempos/timbres. These sounds shape a musical presence in your brain. In the same way, neurons in the brain activate a colorful pattern. It assembles neural activities that mediate specific behavior.


The Motor Cortex controls movement and is a prime part of the brain. Patterns of motor cortex activities are different between the arrangement and implementation phases. The transition of such controls is critical to activate movement. The brain areas which control this transition are unknown.


There is a brain area that acts as a conductor. These areas forever monitor all the environmental clues and neuronal activities of all patterns. It ensures all plans are converting correctly to action at the proper time.


Identifying neural circuits are serving as conductors for initiating this planned movement is always a difficult task. The researchers' team simultaneously registered the activities of hundreds of such neurons. A rat performed a triggered movement job. In such a task, mice were pre-trained to lick the right whiskers on touching or the left when not.



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