Although cerebellar mechanisms are vital to maintain accuracy during complex movements and to calibrate simple reflexes, recent in vitro studies have called into question the widely held view that ...

As we go about our daily lives, we are constantly bombarded by a steady stream of sensory information. Take a typical morning routine for example- roused from sleep by a shrill alarm, the strong aroma ...

The sense of touch is used by animals to build a spatial representation of the surrounding environment. A large fraction of the tactile information is acquired in an active context, while the body is ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 116, No. 10 (March 5, 2019), pp. 4661-4670 (10 pages) The development of the cerebellum depends on intricate ...

In a recent study published in Nature Neuroscience, a group of researchers explored how the cerebellum directly affects dopamine release in the substantia nigra compacta (SNc). While the cerebellum's ...

A team of neuroscientists at Concordia University has revealed a new organizational map of a major brain connection that supports both movement and cognition. Using advanced imaging and data-driven ...

Cerebellum in orange. Cerebellar means "relating to the cerebellum." It's the sister word to cerebral, which means "relating to the cerebrum." Source: Sebastian Kaulitzki / Shutterstock ...

The medical community has believed the job of the cerebellum, located in the base of the skull, was mostly for motor function. University of Iowa Assistant Professor of psychiatry Krystal Parker has ...

A new study identifies genome variants and pathways that contribute to composing and arranging in musically trained individuals. The study estimates the inherited proportion as 30% for these ...

BRONX, NY--(January 17, 2019)--In a study published online today in the journal Science, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, part of Montefiore, prove for the first time that the brain ...

A signaling pathway has the potential to block a type of cancer in the cerebellum, suggests new research. The work is focused on brain tumor formation in animal models of medulloblastoma, the most ...