Deep within each half of the brain lies the caudate nucleus. It’s responsible for processing visual information, movement, and memory. Dysfunction may cause conditions like dementia or Parkinson’s ...

A 7 Tesla MRI study of early Parkinson's disease patients links anxiety to reduced caudate volume and distinct shape deformations in the striatum, thalamus, and amygdala.

A five-year Italian study found that early dopamine loss in the caudate nucleus on DAT-SPECT marks a parkinsonian phenotype ...

Neuroscientists have shown that stimulating the caudate nucleus can generate negative moods that lead to irrational decision-making. Stimulating the caudate nucleus causes animals to give far more ...

Associative learning allows an individual to acquire an association between a sensory cue and an outcome resulting from a specific response. Associative learning plays a vital role in the ability to ...

The findings suggest that the tool can be used to not only assess cognitive impairment in Huntington disease (HD) but also to detect brain atrophy patterns associated with cognitive status in these ...

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