by Ingrid Fadelli, Medical Xpress Credit: Marshall et al, Nature Neuroscience (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41593-022-01165-8 When humans and other mammals perform voluntary movements, a series of neural processes take place. The cerebral cortex, the outer region of the brain, sends signals to motor units (i.e., neurons) in the spinal cord, which in turn activate individual muscles. Past neuroscience...
