The cerebellum ("little brain") is tucked underneath the basal ganglia; it sits in the back of the skull below the cerebrum. Source: CLIPAREA l Custom media/Shutterstock Neuroscientists have unearthed ...

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, ...

If you thought Parkinson's disease is simply a motor disorder, think again. In recent years, researchers have increasingly realized that the disease has a cognitive component as well. Research ...

A hallmark of Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is the degeneration of dopamine (DA) releasing neurons in a midbrain structure of the basal ganglia called the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNpc). Yet, some ...

Deep in the human brain, a very specific kind of cell dies during Parkinson’s disease. For the first time, researchers have sorted large numbers of human brain cells in the substantia nigra into 10 ...

As the race to find a cure for Parkinson’s disease continues, UC Berkeley neurobiologist Yang Dan will join a $9 million project to study brain circuitry issues around the disease. The project — which ...

Treatment of bipolar mania is currently based on a mixture of serendipitously discovered drugs, including the antipsychotic drug olanzapine, anticonvulsants such as valproate and lamotrigine, and ...