In neuropsychology, dysmetria (literally meaning wrong length) is a specific kind of ataxia (loss of control of motor movements) where a patient cannot properly carry out an intended motor movement, ...

The cerebellum is incorporated into the distributed neural circuits subserving motor control, cognitive processing and the modulation of emotion. This lecture provides an overview of anatomical ...

The cerebellum facilitates associative learning—wherein visual information is linked to motor actions—by strengthening ...

Cerebellar Mutism Syndrome (CMS) is a complex neurobehavioural disorder primarily affecting children following surgical resection of posterior fossa tumours. Characterised by transient loss or severe ...

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 ...

—The cerebellum apparently plays an important role in ADHD, and a new study may be the first to use multicohort longitudinal data to evaluate cerebellar growth in children with the disorder. Reviewed ...

A team of researchers at the Institute for Neurosciences (IN), a joint center of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH), has reconstructed for the ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins restored the normal growth of specific nerve cells in the cerebellum of mouse models of Down syndrome that were stunted by this genetic condition. The cerebellum is the ...

A cerebellar hypoplasia cat is also known as a wobbly cat. This condition is one of the most common nervous system disorders in cats. It's caused by the underdevelopment or destruction of the ...

There is currently no scientific evidence that low-lying cerebellar tonsils directly cause migraines, though headaches can be a symptom of the condition, typically presenting as occipital or ...