Striatonigral Pathway (IMAGE)

Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Striatonigral Pathway

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In a recent study, Columbia researchers have investigated why dyskinesias occur in Parkinson's disease patients: they identified a major change in the function of striatonigral GABA synapses in the basal ganglia, a brain circuit that controls movement. Pictured here in green is the striatonigral pathway.

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Columbia University Medical Center/Borgkvist et al./<i>Neuron</i> 2015

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