Importance of the Cerebellum. Forming a half-circle shape around your brain stem, the cerebellum sits at about the same level as your ears, is pinkish-gray, and weighs about 6 ounces.

The cerebellum — or”little brain” — helps with movement and balance. It can also play a role in cognitive functions like speaking, thinking, remembering, and communicating. The cerebellum ...

In a July 2018 MIT News article, “Charting the Cerebellum,” first author Xavier Guell of MIT's McGovern Institute of Brain Research, describes his team’s state-of-the-art mapping of motor ...

The human brain is a hugely complex organ, made of different areas that handle different functions. The cerebellum is the part that handles many aspects of movement. This article provides a brief ...

Holmes described these cases in a seminal 1917 paper in the journal Brain, where he called the cerebellum a “motor reinforcing organ.” 1 Rather than directly producing movements, he explained that the ...

EM, researchers elucidated the structure of key receptors integral to fast excitatory synaptic transmission in the rat ...

A brain structure that helps us walk in a straight line also appears to play a central role in emotional control and decision-making. The findings about the cerebellum challenge years of dogma.

For the longest time the cerebellum, a dense, fist-size formation located at the base of the brain, never got much respect from neuroscientists. For about two centuries the scientific community ...

We can't see what other people are thinking, so we have to infer it and that's very crucial for our communication as humans.

The cerebellum is primarily involved in movement, but a recent study found that the cerebellum is also involved in remembering emotional experiences. The study published in the Proceedings of the ...

My late father, Richard Bergland, M.D. (1932-2007) published The Fabric of Mind in 1986. For the book cover, dad insisted on a sagittal plane view; he liked how this vantage point elucidates major ...

A brain structure that helps us walk a straight line also appears to play a central role in emotional control and decision-making. The findings about the cerebellum challenge years of dogma.