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Laboratory
of Sensorimotor Integration
Edwards 4
617-726-3986 |
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| Research Interests: |
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The basal ganglia play a critical but enigmatic role
in many aspects of brain function including movement,
motivation, reward, and addiction. The vast number of
neurologic disorders such as Parkinson disease, Huntington
disease, Tourette syndrome, dystonia, and schizophrenia,
that involve the basal ganglia are a testament to the
importance of this role. However, defining precisely the
role of the basal ganglia in the normal control of movement
or motivation is surprisingly difficult. The goal of the
experiments described here is to explore the role of basal
ganglia in adaptive learning and motor control in awake-behaving
primates and in human subjects undergoing surgery. Our
lab is uniquely positioned to investigate basal ganglia
function in nonhuman primates and in humans undergoing
surgery for movement disorders.
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