Shorts: Damn It, Basal Ganglia

Shorts: Damn It, Basal Ganglia

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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.