Table 1 Major contributions to the current knowledge of the cerebellum
From: Where did the motor function of the cerebellum come from?
Year | Author | Contribution |
|---|---|---|
1809 | Luigi Rolando | The cerebellum is the battery that produces the electricity necessary for generating muscular contraction |
1824 | Marie-Jean-Pierre Flourens | The role of the cerebellum is not that of generating the movement but to regulate it |
1891 | Luigi Luciani | Description, in a dog survived the cerebellectomy, of a triad of symptoms (asthenia, atony and astasis) unquestionably of cerebellar origin |
1894 | Santiago Ramón y Cajal | Publication of the first modern textbook of neuroanatomy with a clear description of the cerebellar cortex. |
1922 | Gordon Morgan Holmes | Systematic description of the symptoms of cerebellar lesions in man |
1967 | John C. Eccles, Masao Ito, and János Szentágothai | Book: The Cerebellum as a Neuronal Machine |
1969 | David C. Marr | Hypothesis about cerebellum and motor learning: A theory of cerebellar cortex |
1971 | James S. Albus | Hypothesis about cerebellum and motor learning: A theory of cerebellar function |
1974 | Gary I. Allen and Nakaakira Tsukahara | Review: Cerebrocerebellar communication systems |
1982 | Masao Ito and Masanobu Kano | Description in the cerebellum of the Long Term Depression |
1998 | Jeremy D. Schmahmann | Description of the Cerebellar Cognitive Affective Syndrome |