Navigation path  Paving the way for thought-controlled
prostheses  Understanding how the brain processes new skills and
actions can help to improve learning and aid research into
neurodegenerative and psychiatric disorders such as Parkinson's
and Huntington's disease . An EU-funded project has collected
new data on the development of neural mechanisms of action
learning and habit formation and addiction through the
manipulation of the brain’s molecular networks. This could lead
to breakthroughs in thought-controlled prostheses.  Some actions
undertaken by living things are innate or pre-wired, such as
swallowing, breathing and even grooming. Others are learned
throughout life through trial and error. The EU-funded Neural
mechanisms of action learning in mouse models (Neuroaction)
project studied the neurological changes (changes in the brain,
spinal cord and nervous system) which take place when actions
are learned through the reaction to stimuli, facts and events.
The project’s findings give hope to suffere