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RECENTLY PUBLISHED ARTICLES

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  Parasympathetic Nervous System: Regulation, Recovery, and Internal Control
  The parasympathetic nervous system is a major division of the autonomic nervous system, regulating organs and glands largely outside conscious awareness. It is commonly summarized as the body’s “rest-and-digest” system, but that phrase captures only part of its role. Parasympathetic pathways slow the heart under many conditions, support digestion and elimination, constrict the pupils, stimulate… Read more: Parasympathetic Nervous System: Regulation, Recovery, and Internal Control
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  Sympathetic Nervous System: The Body’s Adaptive Mobilization Network
  The sympathetic nervous system is one division of the autonomic nervous system, the network that regulates internal organs, blood vessels, glands, and metabolism without requiring continuous conscious control. It is often described as the body’s “fight-or-flight” system, a phrase associated with Walter Cannon’s early twentieth-century work on emergency physiology. In Bodily Changes in Pain, Hunger,… Read more: Sympathetic Nervous System: The Body’s Adaptive Mobilization Network
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  Autonomic and Peripheral Nervous System: How the Body Communicates and Maintains Balance
  The brain and spinal cord could not guide the body without nerves extending into the skin, muscles, organs, blood vessels, and glands. This peripheral nervous system, or PNS, is the interface between the central nervous system and the body. It carries sensory information inward, sends motor commands outward, and regulates internal processes that rarely enter… Read more: Autonomic and Peripheral Nervous System: How the Body Communicates and Maintains Balance
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  Motor Disorders: How the Nervous System Loses Control of Movement
  Motor disorders are conditions that interfere with the planning, initiation, timing, force, coordination, or execution of movement. They can produce actions that are too slow, too small, excessive, repetitive, unstable, weak, or poorly coordinated. Some primarily disrupt basal-ganglia circuits, as in Parkinson’s disease, dystonia, Huntington’s disease, and tic disorders. Others arise from cerebellar degeneration or… Read more: Motor Disorders: How the Nervous System Loses Control of Movement
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  Cerebellar Function: How the Brain Refines Movement, Learning, and Thought
  The cerebellum is a densely organized brain structure positioned behind the brainstem and beneath the rear portions of the cerebral hemispheres. Its name means “little brain,” but its influence extends throughout the nervous system. It receives information about intended actions, ongoing movement, sensory feedback, balance, and the state of the body. Rather than directly initiating… Read more: Cerebellar Function: How the Brain Refines Movement, Learning, and Thought
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  Basal Ganglia: How the Brain Selects Actions, Learns Habits, and Controls Movement
  The basal ganglia are a group of interconnected structures located deep within the cerebral hemispheres and upper brainstem. Their major components include the caudate nucleus, putamen, globus pallidus, subthalamic nucleus, and substantia nigra. The caudate and putamen together form the dorsal striatum, which receives extensive information from the cerebral cortex. Related ventral structures, including the… Read more: Basal Ganglia: How the Brain Selects Actions, Learns Habits, and Controls Movement
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  Movement Control and Coordination: How the Nervous System Organizes Action
  Movement control is the process through which the nervous system transforms intentions, sensory information, and bodily states into organized muscular activity. Coordination refers to the way muscles, joints, limbs, and neural systems cooperate so that movement remains accurate, stable, and appropriate to a goal. Even a simple reach requires the brain to estimate the hand’s… Read more: Movement Control and Coordination: How the Nervous System Organizes Action
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  Motor Cortex: How the Brain Organizes Voluntary Movement
  The motor cortex is a group of frontal-lobe regions that contributes to planning, initiating, and controlling voluntary movement. It includes the primary motor cortex, premotor cortex, supplementary motor area, and nearby cingulate motor regions. These areas exchange information with the parietal cortex, basal ganglia, cerebellum, thalamus, brainstem, spinal cord, and sensory systems. Even reaching for… Read more: Motor Cortex: How the Brain Organizes Voluntary Movement
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  Motor Neuroscience: How the Brain Plans, Controls, and Learns Movement
  Motor neuroscience examines how the brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerves, muscles, and sensory systems work together to produce movement. Its subject matter ranges from basic reflexes and rhythmic activities such as walking to highly skilled actions such as speaking, writing, playing an instrument, or reaching for a fragile object. Movement may appear to begin when… Read more: Motor Neuroscience: How the Brain Plans, Controls, and Learns Movement
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  Multisensory Integration: How the Brain Combines the Senses
  Multisensory integration is the process through which the nervous system combines information from vision, hearing, touch, smell, taste, balance, proprioception, and internal bodily signals. Everyday events rarely stimulate only one sensory system. A conversation includes a voice, facial movements, gestures, and spatial cues; eating combines taste, smell, texture, temperature, and appearance; walking depends on visual,… Read more: Multisensory Integration: How the Brain Combines the Senses