A collection of structures thought to be especially important in voluntary movement, but also with important roles in cognition, learning, motivation and other functions. The basal ganglia include the caudate, putamen, substantia nigra, globus pallidus, nucleus accumbens, and subthalamic nucleus.
Kate Fehlhaber
Kate graduated from Scripps College in 2009 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Neuroscience, completing the cellular and molecular track with honors. As an undergraduate, she studied long-term plasticity in models of Parkinson’s disease in a neurobiology lab at University of California, Los Angeles. She continued this research as lab manager before entering the University of Southern California Neuroscience graduate program in 2011 and then transferring to UCLA in 2013. She completed her PhD in 2017, where her research focused on understanding the communication between neurons in the eye. Kate founded Knowing Neurons in 2011, and her passion for creative science communication has continued to grow.
