The basal ganglia are a set of subcortical structures that interact with the cerebral cortex to regulate motor, cognitive and affective function through reinforcement learning and action selection.

A large number of computational models of information processing in the basal ganglia have been developed in recent years. Prominent in these are actor-critic models of basal ganglia functioning which ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Tourette disorder is linked to cellular differences in the basal ganglia, crucial for movement control. A study found 50% fewer interneurons in Tourette patients ...