People often worry about their brains aging, focusing only on the cerebrum related to memory and dementia. However, the ...

Essential tremor (ET) is the most prevalent movement disorder with poorly understood etiology. Some neuroimaging studies report cerebellar involvement whereas others do not. This discrepancy may stem ...

Eyeblink conditioning, finger tapping, and prism adaptation are three tasks that have been linked to the cerebellum. Previous research suggests that these tasks recruit distinct but partially ...

A new study upends movement disorder research, proving Purkinje cells are a poor biomarker for deep cerebellar nuclei.

Anonymous researcher checking fMRI images provided by NIMH - US Department of Health and Human Services: National Institute of Mental Health. (Public Domain) Source: Wikipedia/Public Domain For the ...

Cerebellar agenesis is a condition in which the normal formation of the hindbrain is disrupted. Patients with this disorder have very few pieces of cerebellar tissue - frequently the remains of lower ...

A 34 year-old woman presented with slowly progressive ataxia and slurred speech since childhood. Examination showed truncal ataxia with dysmetria on finger-to-nose and heel-to-shin testing. Two ...

Dr. Claudio M. de Gusmao: A 69-year-old man was evaluated in the neurology clinic of this hospital because of progressively worsening ataxia. The patient had been well until 9 years before this ...

Cerebellum (Latin for "little brain") in red. Source: Life Sciences Database/Wikimedia Commons Non-invasive stimulation of the cerebellum at a delta frequency normalizes brain activity in the frontal ...