Basal ganglia: physiological, behavioral, and computational studies

• Main Author: Ahmed A. Moustafa (auth)
• Other Authors: Alon Korngreen (auth), Izhar Bar-Gad (auth), Hagai Bergman (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Subthalamic Nucleus; dopaime; Parkinson's disease (PD); human imagine studies; animal studies; Basal Ganglia; computational modeling
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The basal ganglia has received much attention over the last two decades, as it has been implicated in many neurological and psychiatric disorders. Most of this research - in both animals and humans - attempt to understand the neural and biochemical substrates of basic motor and learning processes, a...