Those findings correlated with brain activity The positive subjects showed greater activation of the supplementary motor area, parietal regions, frontal gyrus, medial temporal lobe, and parahippocampus.
What does SMA stand for?
SMA stands for Supplementary Motor Area
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He had some immediate post-operative weakness on the right side (known as supplementary motor area or SMA syndrome.
Firing of the efferent pathways from basal ganglia activates the supplementary motor area followed by the primary cortex and then travel back to the final pathway in the anterior horn to pre-prepare for the demands imposed by activities and occupations.
It appears that the net effect of the direct pathway is to facilitate motion by exciting the supplementary motor area, linking the striatum to the globus pallidus and substantia nigra pars reticulata.
However, men show more activity in a region known as the supplementary motor area of the brain -- which means better spatial skills.
But with memory tasks, like map reading, men show more activity than women in the brain region known as the supplementary motor area.