How did the bodies of animals, including ours, become such fine-tuned movement machines? How vertebrates coordinate the eternal tug-o-war between involuntary reflexes and seamless voluntary movements ...

Almost everything we do -- walking, talking, or drinking coffee -- is completely dependent on accurate timing when activating many muscles at once. The prevailing theory has been that the exact timing ...

Researchers trying to help people suffering from paralysis after a spinal cord injury or stroke mapped critical brain-to-spinal cord nerve connections that drive voluntary movement in forelimbs, a ...

Carrying out exact movements requires the precise exchange of information between the central nervous system (CNS) and the muscles in the body. In order to achieve a desired movement, limb, motor ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 119, No. 48 (November 29, 2022), pp. 1-11 (11 pages) Descending motor drive and somatosensory feedback play ...

How does the brain control the precision of movement of our body parts? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better ...

DURHAM, N.C. – All parents know the infant milestones: turning over, learning to crawl, standing, and taking that first unassisted step. Achieving each accomplishment presumably requires the formation ...

Researchers at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland have identified a link between the exhalation phase during a breathing cycle and a spike in "readiness potential" ...