Header Logo

Motor Cortex

"Motor Cortex" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

expand / collapse MeSH information
Area of the FRONTAL LOBE concerned with primary motor control located in the dorsal PRECENTRAL GYRUS immediately anterior to the central sulcus. It is comprised of three areas: the primary motor cortex located on the anterior paracentral lobule on the medial surface of the brain; the premotor cortex located anterior to the primary motor cortex; and the supplementary motor area located on the midline surface of the hemisphere anterior to the primary motor cortex.


expand / collapse publications
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Motor Cortex" by people in this website by year, and whether "Motor Cortex" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 30 publications over 14 distinct years, with a maximum of 5 publications in 2020
To see the data from this visualization as text, click here.