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Surprise communication found between brain regions involved in infant motor control

May 4, 2017 by

A new connection between two regions of the brain has been discovered that may help explain how motor skills develop. Working with infant rats, the scientists found that the hippocampus and the red nucleus, part of the brain stem, synchronize during REM sleep.

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