{"id":142913,"date":"2022-07-26T20:26:46","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T01:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/researchers-confirm-brain-regions-role-in-mind-body-communication"},"modified":"2022-07-26T20:26:46","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T01:26:46","slug":"researchers-confirm-brain-regions-role-in-mind-body-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/researchers-confirm-brain-regions-role-in-mind-body-communication","title":{"rendered":"Researchers confirm brain region\u2019s role in mind-body communication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-confirm-brain-regions-role-in-mind-body-communication2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>University of Iowa researchers have confirmed in a new study that a specific region in the brain is critical to governing the mind\u2019s communication with the body\u2019s motor control system. The findings could yield advances in treatment for Parkinson\u2019s disease, as declining motor coordination is a central symptom of the disorder.<\/p>\n<p>In experiments with humans, the researchers pinpointed the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/subthalamic+nucleus\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">subthalamic nucleus<\/a> as the region in the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/brain\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">brain<\/a> that communicates with the motor system to help the body stop an action. This communication is vital because it helps humans avoid surprises and react to potentially dangerous or unforeseen circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>The subthalamic nucleus is a tiny grouping of cells that is part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/basal+ganglia\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">basal ganglia<\/a>, which is a key circuit in controlling movement. The basal ganglia takes initial motor commands generated in the brain and either amplify or halt specific parts of those commands as they pass from the central nervous system to the spinal cord.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Iowa researchers have confirmed in a new study that a specific region in the brain is critical to governing the mind\u2019s communication with the body\u2019s motor control system. The findings could yield advances in treatment for Parkinson\u2019s disease, as declining motor coordination is a central symptom of the disorder. In experiments with humans, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}