The Fidgeting Brain

By Neuroskeptic
Oct 14, 2018 12:52 PMMay 21, 2019 5:44 PM

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A new review paper in The Neuroscientist highlights the problem of body movements for neuroscience, from blinks to fidgeting.

Authors Patrick J Drew and colleagues of Penn State discuss how many types of movements are associated with widespread brain activation, which can contaminate brain activity recordings. This is true, they say, of both humans and experimental animals such as rodents, e.g. with their ‘whisking’ movements of the whiskers.

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