The Moving Brain: Motor Control Neuroscience from the Ground Up

Subject: Everything a motor control neuroscientist should know about the brain.

50 chapters

Chapters

1. Why Brains Exist to Move
   chill rap, male vocal, vintage tape warmth, laid-back and groovy, slow ballad, warm strummed acoustic guitar · 3:56
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2. Neurons, Spikes and Synapses
   piano, classical, rap · 3:52
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3. A Map of the Motor Brain
   neo-soul rap, soulful vocals, warm analog production, laid-back and groovy, steady mid-groove, jazzy Rhodes piano · 3:47
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4. The Motor Hierarchy
   piano, classical, rap · 3:14
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5. Muscles and Motor Units
   Post-Quantum Cryptography · 4:16
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6. Henneman's Size Principle
   CI/CD Security and Supply Chain Protection · 3:49
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7. Reflexes and Muscle Sensors
   Post-Quantum Cryptography · 3:16
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8. Central Pattern Generators
   Truncus Arteriosus: Cardiac Pathology and Surgery · 3:55
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9. Brainstem Motor Pathways
   conscious rap, spoken-word verses, clean minimalist production, warm and nostalgic, midtempo, sparse piano · 3:42
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10. Discovering the Motor Cortex
    neo-soul rap, soulful vocals, warm analog production, laid-back and groovy, steady mid-groove, jazzy Rhodes piano · 4:12
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11. The Motor Homunculus
    Data Engineering with dbt · 4:05
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12. Betz Cells and Cortical Layers
    Full-Stack Web Development with Angular · 3:20
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13. The Corticospinal Tract
    CFA Level III: Wealth Management and Institutional Investing · 3:52
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14. Force or Direction? What M1 Encodes
    CI/CD Security and Supply Chain Protection · 3:27
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15. Population Vectors
    Full-Stack Web Development with Angular · 4:08
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16. M1 as a Dynamical System
    Data Engineering with dbt · 3:39
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17. Premotor Cortex Overview
    Truncus Arteriosus: Cardiac Pathology and Surgery · 3:45
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18. Dorsal Premotor: Choosing What to Do
    piano, classical, rap · 4:08
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19. Ventral Premotor and Grasping
    Post-Quantum Cryptography · 4:10
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20. Mirror Neurons
    conscious rap, spoken-word verses, clean minimalist production, warm and nostalgic, midtempo, sparse piano · 3:37
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21. Supplementary Motor Area
    Truncus Arteriosus: Cardiac Pathology and Surgery · 4:12
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22. Pre-SMA and Learning Sequences
    neo-soul rap, soulful vocals, warm analog production, laid-back and groovy, steady mid-groove, jazzy Rhodes piano · 3:40
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23. The Readiness Potential and Free Will
    Truncus Arteriosus: Cardiac Pathology and Surgery · 4:13
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24. Cingulate Motor Areas
    Truncus Arteriosus: Cardiac Pathology and Surgery · 3:48
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25. Somatosensory Cortex and Touch
    CFA Level III: Wealth Management and Institutional Investing · 3:57
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26. Parietal Cortex and Reaching
    neo-soul rap, soulful vocals, warm analog production, laid-back and groovy, steady mid-groove, jazzy Rhodes piano · 4:09
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27. Vision for Action
    Full-Stack Web Development with Angular · 4:03
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28. Basal Ganglia Circuits
    Post-Quantum Cryptography · 3:45
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29. Dopamine and Action Selection
    Post-Quantum Cryptography · 3:39
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30. The Cerebellum
    neo-soul rap, soulful vocals, warm analog production, laid-back and groovy, steady mid-groove, jazzy Rhodes piano · 3:52
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31. Cerebellar Learning Theory
    CFA Level III: Wealth Management and Institutional Investing · 4:30
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32. The Motor Thalamus
    acoustic rap, intimate close-mic vocals, stripped-back acoustic production, tender and heartfelt, slow ballad, fingerpicked acoustic guitar · 3:58
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33. Single Neurons and Arrays
    chill rap, male vocal, vintage tape warmth, laid-back and groovy, slow ballad, warm strummed acoustic guitar · 3:31
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34. EMG and Kinematics
    acoustic rap, intimate close-mic vocals, stripped-back acoustic production, tender and heartfelt, slow ballad, fingerpicked acoustic guitar · 3:57
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35. TMS and Brain Stimulation
    Post-Quantum Cryptography · 4:18
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36. EEG, MEG and fMRI
    Truncus Arteriosus: Cardiac Pathology and Surgery · 4:02
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37. Lesions and Optogenetics
    piano, classical, rap · 3:36
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38. Bernstein and Motor Redundancy
    acoustic rap, intimate close-mic vocals, stripped-back acoustic production, tender and heartfelt, slow ballad, fingerpicked acoustic guitar · 4:03
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39. Speed, Accuracy and Fitts's Law
    CFA Level III: Wealth Management and Institutional Investing · 3:48
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40. Equilibrium Point Hypothesis
    lo-fi, ambient, dreamy, relaxed · 5:29
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41. Internal Models
    Full-Stack Web Development with Angular · 3:28
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42. Optimal Feedback Control
    neo-soul rap, soulful vocals, warm analog production, laid-back and groovy, steady mid-groove, jazzy Rhodes piano · 3:22
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43. Adaptation to Force Fields
    piano, classical, rap · 3:32
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44. Learning Motor Skills
    Truncus Arteriosus: Cardiac Pathology and Surgery · 4:03
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45. Plasticity in Motor Cortex
    lo-fi, ambient, dreamy, relaxed · 5:23
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46. Stroke and Motor Recovery
    CI/CD Security and Supply Chain Protection · 4:21
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47. Parkinson's and Huntington's
    Full-Stack Web Development with Angular · 3:36
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48. Apraxia, ALS and Other Disorders
    lo-fi, ambient, dreamy, relaxed · 4:43
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49. Brain-Computer Interfaces
    Post-Quantum Cryptography · 3:07
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50. Open Questions in Motor Control
    Truncus Arteriosus: Cardiac Pathology and Surgery · 3:15
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