Scientists have found in a new study that the human brain’s cerebellum, known for mainly regulating muscle control and body movement, also helps in remembering emotional experiences. Earlier studies ...

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 ...

This early 20th-century anatomical illustration of the human brain (from below) shows the left and right hemispheres of both the cerebellum and cerebrum. "Cerebellar" is the sister word to "cerebral" ...

A new theory has been offered suggesting that an early-life injury to the cerebellum disrupts the brain's processing of external and internal information and leads to 'developmental diaschisis,' ...

The dorsal cochlear nucleus (DCN) integrates auditory nerve input with a diverse array of sensory and motor signals processed in circuitry similar to that of the cerebellum. Yet how the DCN ...

A recent study suggests that spinocerebellar ataxia 1 (SCA1), a neurodegenerative disorder of the cerebellum, could affect the functioning of the hippocampus, possibly explaining the mysteriously high ...

In March 2017, neuroscientists from around the globe published five different studies in various peer-reviewed journals detailing radical new discoveries about the cerebellum. In this Psychology Today ...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the relative contributions of the ipsilateral and contralateral cerebellum to the acquisition of unilateral classical eyeblink conditioning (EBCC). The unilateral ...