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Damn It, Basal Ganglia by WNYC Studios

Damn It, Basal Ganglia

from Radiolab

by WNYC Studios

Published: Tue Aug 09 2011

Show Notes

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.

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