Neuromodulation and Executive Control of Human Movements

Dear Colleagues,

The executive control of a task or a movement can be defined as the ability of the brain to coordinate its multiple sites to accomplish this task or movement. This may involve cognitive, sensory and motor cortices in the frontal, parietal and temporal lobes and subcortical structures in the basal ganglia, thalamus, cerebellum, brainstem and spinal cord. Neuromodulation of these neural circuits, whether electrical or magnetic, can affect this control by changing the activity of populations of neurons by releasing inhibitory or excitatory transmitters.

We invite authors to contribute to this Special Issue of Brain Sciences, which is dedicated to the ways that modulation of different parts of the brain may affect the executive control of human movements, the mechanisms behind these effects, and the various modes of neuromodulatory techniques for enhancement of control as well as the new developments that are taking place in the field.

Dr. Shapour Jaberzadeh
Guest Editor

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