Basal ganglia
The basal ganglia is a part of the brain associated with the ability to carry out willed movements, and is therefore important in motor planning. It is located deep within the brain and is made up of clumps of neurons as distinct from the sheet-like nature of the cerebral cortex. The basal ganglia comprises the following areas of the brain: the striatum (consisting of the caudate nucleus and putamen), the globus pallidus, the substantia nigra, and the subthalamic nucleus.
Disorders linked with the basal ganglia
References
- Nolte, John, The Human Brain: An Introduction to its Functional Anatomy (Fifth Edition). (St. Louis: Mosby, Inc., 2002), 464-484. ISBN 0-323-01320-1
