A learning goals checklist for you to keep in mind as you move through this section.

Learn about the basics of motor control in this chapter from Neuroscience Online. 

This Neuroscience Online chapter provides detail about the motor cortex.

This Neuroscience Online chapter provides detail about the cerebellum.

Learn about how the spinal cord controls movement in this chapter of Foundations of Neuroscience. 

This Foundations of Neuroscience chapter provides detail about the motor cortex.

This Neuroscience Online chapter provides detail about the basal ganglia.

This video from 2-Minute Neuroscience profiles the mechanisms behind Parkinson's Disease.

Check out this video from 2-minute Neuroscience about a very amazing synapse- the neuromuscular junction!

This video from 2-Minute Neuroscience demonstrates the location and functions of the motor cortices.

Check out this video from 2-minute Neuroscience about the structure and function of the basal ganglia. 

Hear from Jean Abbott, who was misdiagnosed with Spastic Dipligia Cerebral Palsy until her 30's, when it was discovered that she has Dopa-Responsive Dystonia.