GENERAL HISTOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The basal ganglia are responsible for voluntary motor control, procedural learning, and eye movement, as well as cognitive and emotional functions.

Detailed explanation-2: -It has a multitude of functions associated with reward and cognition but is primarily involved in motor control. In particular, the basal ganglia is considered to be a gate-keeping mechanism for the initiation of motor movement, effectively choosing which actions to allow and which actions to inhibit.

Detailed explanation-3: -Visual abnormalities were also present in six infants with isolated basal ganglia lesions. CONCLUSIONS-These observations suggest that basal ganglia may have an integral role in human visual development and that their presence on neonatal MRI could be an early marker of abnormal visual function.

Detailed explanation-4: -The first role of the basal ganglia in categorization is interacting with visual cortex to process visual information. In this section I first discuss the anatomy of the visual corticostriatal loop, and evidence that this loop is important in visual categorization and related tasks.