Shorts: Damn It, Basal Ganglia

Radiolab

• Episode: Shorts: Damn It, Basal Ganglia
• Website: Radiolab
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• Published: 2011-08-10 01:50

The basal ganglia is a core part of the brain, deep inside your skull, that helps control movement. Unless something upsets the chain of command. In this short, Jad and Robert meet a young researcher who was studying what happens when the basal ganglia gets short-circuited in mice...until one fateful day, when things got really, really weird.