Starting with a handful of cases in which patients with cerebellar damage exhibited nonmotor defects, such as difficulties using cues to plan their actions, this once-radical hypothesis has gained ...

These difficulties highlight the cerebellum's essential role in refining motor movements." However, Van Overwalle's research ...

This work advances our understanding of the role of the cerebellum in sensorimotor learning and points towards the role of ...

The cerebellum plays a central role in the control of the body’s movements and in the learning of physical tasks. Based on signals from the inner ears and the muscles, the cerebellum enables the ...

Summary: New research reveals that serotonin in the cerebellum plays a crucial role in anxiety regulation. Scientists found that mice with lower cerebellar serotonin levels displayed increased anxiety ...

Although the liver remains the primary organ for alcohol metabolism, the brain’s cerebellum plays a bigger role in this process than once believed, according to a study in mice published on March 22 ...

Understanding the neural circuits that drive anxiety may help researchers discover circuit-specific targets and therefore ...

Serotonin in the cerebellum alleviates anxiety-like behavior in mice, which counters the previously accepted role of serotonin in anxiety and may point to new treatment strategies.

According to the authors, this newfound role of cerebellar serotonin as a "brake" to alleviate anxiety is informative for work in more advanced animal models and the development of new treatment ...

Understanding the neural circuits that drive anxiety may help researchers discover circuit-specific targets and therefore increase the precision of ...