Mobile health technologies (wearable, portable, body-fixed sensors, or domestic-integrated
devices) that quantify mobility in unsupervised, daily living environments are emerging as …

Parkinson's disease is a chronic progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by
resting tremor, slowness of movements, rigidity, gait disturbance and postural instability …

The supplementary motor complex consists of the supplementary motor area, the
supplementary eye field and the pre-supplementary motor area. In recent years, these areas …

Beat perception offers cognitive scientists an exciting opportunity to explore how cognition
and action are intertwined in the brain even in the absence of movement. Many believe the …

The capacity for voluntary action is seen as essential to human nature. Yet neuroscience
and behaviourist psychology have traditionally dismissed the topic as unscientific, perhaps …

The clinical signs grouped under the concept of apathy are a common feature of prefrontal
and basal ganglia lesions or dysfunctions and can therefore help to improve our …

Background. Gait is influenced by higher order cognitive and cortical control mechanisms.
Functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) has been used to examine frontal activation …

Conjunctionanalysis methods were used in functional magnetic resonance imaging to
investigate brain regions commonly activated in subjects performing different versions of …

A “fascinating” and groundbreaking work of science that demonstrates the possibilities for
human control over the workings of the brain (Cleveland Plain Dealer). Conventional …

Recent imaging studies of motor function provide new insights into the organization of the
premotor areas of the frontal lobe. The pre-supplementary motor area and the rostral portion …