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·January 18, 2018·5 min read

Nearly Imperceptible Fluctuations in Movement Correspond to Autism Diagnoses

Movement could be an accurate biomarker for the diagnosis of autism, researchers report.

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·January 17, 2018·4 min read

Midbrain ‘Start Neurons’ Control Whether We Run or Walk

University of Copenhagen researchers have identified two areas of the midbrain that appear to play specific roles in the start, speed and content of dependent selection of locomotion in mice.

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·December 9, 2017·5 min read

When Your Spinal Cord Takes Charge

Researchers have uncovered how our spinal cord knows when to process specific information, and when to ignore it from distracting us at the task at hand.

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·December 8, 2017·4 min read

Brain Network That Helps Babies Learn to Walk Identified

Researchers have identified a brain network that is involved in helping an infant learn to walk. Additionally, disruptions in the network may predict future risk of a child being diagnosed with ASD.

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·December 8, 2017·5 min read

Why We Can’t Always Stop What We’ve Started

Stopping a planned behavior requires a complex and rapid choreography between a number of different brain areas, JHU researchers report.

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·October 7, 2017·3 min read

Shining a Light to Understand the Body’s Balance System

Researchers have developed a new way to help understand how the vestibular system works as an animal stands still. The method involves using optical tweezers to study the activity in the vestibular system.

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·August 16, 2017·5 min read

Scientists Use Magnetic Fields to Remotely Stimulate Brain and Control Body Movements

Researchers have developed a new, minimally invasive brain stimulation technique that can induce a range of bodily movements. The technique, magneto-thermal stimulation, can be used to target highly specific brain regions and could help researchers to advance brain mapping studies.

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·July 28, 2017·4 min read

The Science of Judging Speed

A new study reports the adaptation effect relies upon a person's perceived norms about how fast an object would normally move being altered by short burst of exposure to different speeds.

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·July 23, 2017·7 min read

Choir Helps People with Parkinson’s Disease Battle Destructive Effects to Muscles, Brain and Voice

Researchers at the Northern Arizona University are helping alleviate symptoms of Parkinson's and quash social isolation in sufferers by establishing a choir.

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·July 23, 2017·5 min read

The Neural Codes for Body Movements

Researchers uncover how the posterior parietal cortex encodes and organizes information about body movement.

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·July 20, 2017·4 min read

Patterns of Brain Activity Direct Specific Body Movements

A new study sheds light on how neurons in the motor cortex communicate with muscles and drive motion. Using optogenetics, the researchers discovered the motor cortex communicates with muscles differently, depending on the type of movement an animal makes.

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·June 28, 2017·5 min read

How ‘The Gruffalo’ Helped Academics Boost Youngsters’ Motor Skills and Language Ability

Using the children's book, "The Gruffalo", researchers devised a teaching approach that combined moment and storytelling activities. They report the children that participated in the combined activities showed greater improvement in both language and movement skills than those who were exposed to just one of the activities.