A large number of computational models of information processing in the basal ganglia have been developed in recent years. Prominent in these are actor-critic models of basal ganglia functioning which ...

Children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) do not have a behavioral disorder, nor are they lazy, or lacking in manners and boundaries. Their brains mature in a different way ...

Corticobasal syndrome, however, is distinct from Parkinson's disease because of additional characteristic clinical features such as striking asymmetry ... as well as deep structures (the basal ganglia ...

"Our findings reveal that the basal ganglia—a brain circuit regulating adaptive behavior and motor functions—is affected in autism, with disruptions in how dopamine and acetylcholine work ...

memories that are unconscious and depend on the basal ganglia and cerebellum. Rabah et al. elegantly show that, in Drosophila, astrocytes signal to neurons with hydrogen peroxide to encode memories.