by Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research Graphical abstract. Credit: DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2021.07.002 For decades, a key brain area called the mesencephalic locomotor region has been thought to merely regulate locomotion. Now, researchers in Silvia Arber’s group have shown that the region is involved in much more than walking, as it contains distinct populations of neurons that control...
