Trouble with the latest dance move? GABA chemical messenger might be to blame

Thursday, March 3, 2011 - 13:30 in Biology & Nature

If you tend to have trouble picking up the latest dance moves or learning to play a new piano piece, there might be an explanation. A new study published online on March 3rd in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, shows that people who are fast to learn a simple sequence of finger motions are also those whose brains show large changes in a particular chemical messenger following electrical stimulation.

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