If it decides yes, your brain's motor cortex, a small area that exists on the outer part of your brain, calls for messages to be sent through your spinal cord and down your arm to the muscles that ...

In the new study, the research team found that the motor cortex—the brain region responsible for controlling movement—becomes essentially "disconnected" during dyskinetic episodes. This ...

The implant was placed inside his brain in January, and since then the technology has given Arbaugh the ability to control a mouse cursor ... from the brain motor cortex past the damaged part ...