Yi Li and Josh Huang
A team led by Neurobiology's Josh Huang and postdoc first-author Yi Li studied how different parts of the mouse brain work together to guide a natural action where the animal reaches out and brings water to its mouth to drink. They found that a specific group of motor cortex neurons helps coordinate hand and mouth movements by boosting communication with the thalamus, which integrates signals needed to perform this skilled behavior smoothly.
Read the full article in Nature Neuroscience.