{"id":219876,"date":"2025-08-12T00:15:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T05:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/rodent-study-reveals-different-signaling-codes-for-learned-skills-and-clues-about-human-movement-disorders"},"modified":"2025-08-12T00:15:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T05:15:22","slug":"rodent-study-reveals-different-signaling-codes-for-learned-skills-and-clues-about-human-movement-disorders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/rodent-study-reveals-different-signaling-codes-for-learned-skills-and-clues-about-human-movement-disorders","title":{"rendered":"Rodent study reveals different signaling codes for learned skills and clues about human movement disorders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rodent-study-reveals-different-signaling-codes-for-learned-skills-and-clues-about-human-movement-disorders2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Among the many wonders of the brain is its ability to master learned movements\u2014a dance step, piano sonata, or tying our shoes\u2014acquired through trial-and-error practice. For decades, neuroscientists have known that these tasks require a cluster of brain areas known as the basal ganglia.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41593-025-02026-w\" target=\"_blank\">new study<\/a> led by Harvard researchers in <i>Nature Neuroscience<\/i>, this so-called \u201clearning machine\u201d speaks in two different codes\u2014one for recently-acquired learned movements and another for innate \u201cnatural\u201d behaviors. These surprising findings from <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/lab+rats\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">lab rats<\/a> may shed light on human movement disorders such as Parkinson\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we compared the codes across these two behavioral domains, we found that they were very different,\u201d said Bence \u00d6lveczky, professor of organismic and evolutionary biology (OEB).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the many wonders of the brain is its ability to master learned movements\u2014a dance step, piano sonata, or tying our shoes\u2014acquired through trial-and-error practice. For decades, neuroscientists have known that these tasks require a cluster of brain areas known as the basal ganglia. According to a new study led by Harvard researchers in Nature [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219876","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\/219876","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}