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Research
Vandervert described how, in collaboration with the cerebral cortex, unconscious learning of cerebellar internal models leads to enhanced executive control in working memory in expert music performance and in ...
Cerebellum & Ataxias 2016 3:10
Published on: 5 May 2016
Review
Fastigial nucleus (FN) is the phylogenetically oldest nucleus in the cerebellum, a classical subcortical motor coordinator. As one of the ultimate integration stations and outputs of the spinocerebellum, the F...
Cerebellum & Ataxias 2016 3:9
Published on: 3 May 2016
Erratum
Cerebellum & Ataxias 2016 3:11
Published on: 25 April 2016
The original article was published in Cerebellum & Ataxias 2014 1:16
Letter to the Editor
Acetyl-DL-leucine is a modified amino acid that was observed to improve ataxic symptoms in patients with sporadic and hereditary forms of ataxia. Here, we investigated the effect of the treatment with Acetyl-D...
Cerebellum & Ataxias 2016 3:8
Published on: 12 April 2016
Review
Hereditary cerebellar degenerations are a heterogeneous group of diseases often having a detrimental impact on patients’ quality of life. Unfortunately, no sufficiently effective causal therapy is available fo...
Cerebellum & Ataxias 2016 3:7
Published on: 4 April 2016
Research
Essential tremor (ET) is a common movement disorder characterized by kinetic, postural and intention tremors. Mounting evidence suggests an underlying dysfunction of the cerebellum or cerebellar system. While ...
Cerebellum & Ataxias 2016 3:5
Published on: 2 March 2016
Research
Growing neuroimaging and clinical evidence suggests that the cerebellum plays a critical role in perception. In the auditory domain, the cerebellum seems to be important in different aspects of music and sound...
Cerebellum & Ataxias 2016 3:6
Published on: 2 March 2016
Research
Spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 (SCA3) is a neurodegenerative disorder that affects the cerebellar system and other subcortical regions of the brain. As for other cerebellar diseases, the severity of this type o...
Cerebellum & Ataxias 2016 3:4
Published on: 23 February 2016
Case report
Benign hereditary chorea is a rare disorder which is characterized by early onset, non-progressive choreic movement disturbance, with other hyperkinetic movements and unsteadiness also commonly seen. Hypothyro...
Cerebellum & Ataxias 2016 3:3
Published on: 2 February 2016
Review
Cerebellar abnormalities are encountered in a high number of neurological diseases that present in the neonatal period. These disorders can be categorized broadly as inherited (e.g. malformations, inborn error...
Cerebellum & Ataxias 2016 3:1
Published on: 13 January 2016
Research
Spinocerebellar ataxias (SСAs) are a highly heterogeneous group of inherited neurological disorders. The symptoms of ataxia vary in individual patients and even within the same SCA subtype. A study of a four-g...
Cerebellum & Ataxias 2016 3:2
Published on: 13 January 2016
Research
Spinocerebellar ataxia type 28 (SCA28) is related to mutations of the ATPase family gene 3-like 2 gene (AFG3L2). To date, 13 private missense mutations have been identified in families of French, Italian, and Ger...
Cerebellum & Ataxias 2015 2:19
Published on: 16 December 2015
Case report
In the majority of right-handed subjects, language processing is subserved by a close interplay between the left cerebral hemisphere and right cerebellum. Within this network, the dominant fronto-insular regio...
Cerebellum & Ataxias 2015 2:18
Published on: 10 December 2015
Case report
There is growing evidence that the cerebellum serves an important role in controlling affect and cognition, and its pathology has been implicated in several psychiatric disorders. Furthermore, the brainstem’s...
Cerebellum & Ataxias 2015 2:17
Published on: 9 December 2015
Research
Mitochondrial disease can manifest as multi-organ disorder, often with neurological dysfunction. Cerebellar ataxia in isolation or in combination with other features can result from mitochondrial disease yet g...
Cerebellum & Ataxias 2015 2:16
Published on: 4 December 2015
Case Report
Crossed cerebello-cerebral diaschisis (CCCD) conventionally refers to decreased resting cerebral activity caused by injury to the contralateral cerebellum. We investigated whether functional activation of a co...
Cerebellum & Ataxias 2015 2:15
Published on: 21 November 2015
Review
Immune-mediated cerebellar ataxias include gluten ataxia, paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration, GAD antibody associated cerebellar ataxia, and Hashimoto’s encephalopathy. Despite the identification of an inc...
Cerebellum & Ataxias 2015 2:14
Published on: 10 November 2015
Letter to the Editor
Holmes proposed not only the term ataxia, but also opposite clinical signs related to muscle recruitment, which have escaped clinical attention; (1) asthenia, representing delay in initiating muscle contraction a...
Cerebellum & Ataxias 2015 2:13
Published on: 6 November 2015
Research
Many studies are in the literature on the ANP and oxytocin-presence in the brain, but very few studies with controversial results are reported on the presence of these peptides in the cerebellum. This immunohi...
Cerebellum & Ataxias 2015 2:12
Published on: 6 October 2015
Review
Following in the vein of studies that concluded that music training resulted in plastic changes in Einstein’s cerebral cortex, controlled research has shown that music training (1) enhances central executive a...
Cerebellum & Ataxias 2015 2:11
Published on: 4 September 2015
Commentary
Until the end of 18th century, the role of the cerebellum remained obscure. The turning point occurred when Luigi Galvani showed that muscle contraction is due to electricity and Alessandro Volta produced the ...
Cerebellum & Ataxias 2015 2:10
Published on: 14 August 2015
Research
The aim of this study was to investigate the usefulness of a triaxial accelerometer for the clinical assessment of standing and gait impairment in ataxic patients quantitatively. Fifty-one patients with spinoc...
Cerebellum & Ataxias 2015 2:9
Published on: 6 August 2015
Commentary
Neuroimaging plays a key role in the diagnostic work-up of morphological abnormalities of the cerebellum. Diagnostic criteria for numerous morphological anomalies of the cerebellum are based on neuroimaging fi...
Cerebellum & Ataxias 2015 2:8
Published on: 7 July 2015
Review
The cerebellum is important for motor control, cognition, and language processing. Afferent and efferent fibers are major components of cerebellar circuitry and impairment of these circuits causes severe cereb...
Cerebellum & Ataxias 2015 2:7
Published on: 11 June 2015
Research
The cerebellum plays an important role for balance control and the coordination of voluntary movements. Beyond that there is growing evidence that the cerebellum is also involved in cognitive functions. How at...
Cerebellum & Ataxias 2015 2:6
Published on: 8 May 2015
