Background Lateral ankle sprains are the most common ankle injuries in sports and have
the highest recurrence rates. Almost half of the patients experiencing lateral ankle sprains …

Postural instability is a strong risk factor for falls that becomes more prominent with aging. To
facilitate treatment and prevention of falls in an aging society, a thorough understanding of …

Multiple learning processes contribute to successful goal-directed actions in the face of
changing physiological states, biomechanical constraints, and environmental contexts …

Since the early 1970s, numerous behavioral studies have shown that self-generated touch
feels less intense and less ticklish than the same touch applied externally. Computational …

Sonic hedgehog (Shh) signaling plays a critical role in regulating cerebellum development
by maintaining the physiological proliferation of granule neuron precursors (GNPs), and its …

An increasingly influential hypothesis posits that many of the diverse symptoms of psychosis
can be viewed as reflecting dysfunctional predictive mechanisms. Indeed, to perceive …

Real-world actions require one to simultaneously perceive, think, and act on the surrounding
world, requiring the integration of (bottom-up) sensory information and (top-down) cognitive …

Self-generated touch feels less intense than external touch of the same intensity. According
to theory, this is because the brain predicts and attenuates the somatosensory …

In recent decades, research on somatosensory perception has led to two important
observations. First, self-generated touches that are predicted by voluntary movements …

Although rigidity is a cardinal motor sign in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD), the
instrumental measurement of this clinical phenomenon is largely lacking, and its …