Reading time: 2 min The basal ganglia continually monitor what is going on in the cerebral cortex, which is the thinking part of the brain and where information is processed. The brain’s relay system (thalamus) is responsible for sending and receiving motor and sensory signals (apart from smell) to and from the cerebral cortex. Because
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