Clinical and functional neurological studies have suggested that the motor cortex, M1, does not control facial muscles, mostly the superior ones. Recent studies including current transcranial magnetic stimulation, showed that neural structures related with the cingulate cortex is the main brain region controlling facial muscles in humans. These facts will help clarifying discrepant findings in clinical neurology related to the well known -but not well understood- central facial palsy, among other applications.
Publicación Oficial de la Sociedad Ecuatoriana de Neurología, de la Liga Ecuatoriana Contra la Epilepsia y de la Sociedad Iberoamericana de Enfermedad Cerebrovascular
