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Brain 2006 129(2):288-290; doi:10.1093/brain/awh728
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Thinking about the cerebellum

Mitchell Glickstein

Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, University College London

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   The cerebellum – motor control or more?
 
Prompted by functional imaging studies, there have been a number of recent suggestions that the cerebellum may be involved in functions other than motor control. Lesions or abnormalities of the cerebellum have been claimed to be associated with cognitive deficits and autism; and the cerebellum is said to control shifting attention and be active both during the performance of cognitive tasks and in short-term memory. Many of these reports are summarized in Schmahmann and Sherman (1998)Go. The paper by Susan Ravizza and colleagues in this issue of Brain reports the results of a series of studies comparing the performance of cerebellar patients with that of normal control subjects on short-term memory tasks.

It is difficult to evaluate suggestions about affective or cognitive functions for several reasons. Lesions of the cerebellum may not occur in isolation. Traumatic, vascular, developmental anomalies and tumours typically cause damage to brain structures outside of . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   Anatomical evidence: cerebellum and pre-frontal cortex—the ‘re-entrant circuit’
 

   Autism
 

   What might the hemispheres do?
 

   Cerebellum and functions beyond direct control of ongoing movement
 

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