The results were clear: When dopamine was blocked, learning stopped completely—mice were unable to improve their performance in a forelimb-reaching task. The motor cortex neural network remained ...

Researchers at Boston University recently devised a new experimental approach to study cognitive and motor processes in the mouse brain, distinguishing and isolating the two. This approach ...

The concomitant appearance of motor disability and cognitive deficits is very common in neurodegenerative disease 1. Although progress in developing valuable mouse models for these diseases has ...