The Centre Surround model and Disorders of the Basal Ganglia

Hello! after a break that was far too long I'm back to the blogging (those first two posts obviously took it out of me!). Hopefully I can pick up a bit of momentum this time round and manage a few more in quick succession. For this post I want to follow on from the first I did about the Basal Ganglia, in particular let's talk about how the centre surround model I introduced in the first post has helped clinical scientists in understanding what causes lie behind symptoms they observe in patients with a range of high profile disorders of the Basal Ganglia. I'll be taking my first post as a start point and building on that because I want to avoid any returning readers (wishful thinking?) from having to read the same things twice (plus I'm lazy and don't want to type the same thing multiple times) so now would be a good time to go back now and have a look here.