Learning on ScreenHow Your Brain Works: Motor Disorders
- Synopsis
- Lesson 7 in a series of ten lectures about the human brain, presented by Professor Jan Schnupp. This lecture looks at the basal ganglia and their role in regulating activity of the brain’s motor systems. It also introduces the role of dopamine as a neuromodulator. Many of the insights into their function come from studies of neurodegenerative diseases, like Parkinson’s and Huntington’s, as well as from psychiatric disorders.
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Subjects
- Medical sciences
- Keywords
- brain disorders; Huntington’s chorea; neurological disorders; neurology; Parkinson’s disease; psychiatry; motor neurone disease
Online availability
- URI
- http://howyourbrainworks.net/content/lesson-7-motor-disorders
- Price
- free
- Delivery
- Streamed
Credits
- Writer
- Jan Schnupp
- Contributor
- Jan Schnupp
Distributor
- Name
University of Oxford, Department of Continuing Education
- ruth.murray@continuing-education.oxford.ac.uk
- Phone
- 01865 270291
- Fax
- 01865 280364
- Address
- Rewley House
1 Wellington Square
Oxford
OX1 2JA
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