Cerebellum and neuro/psych implications

[Lawpy]

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Curious to know what you think from a psychiatric/neuropsych perspective. I recently saw this on The Economist and the articles can be found below:

The cerebellum gets social

Cerebellar modulation of the reward circuitry and social behavior

 

[phonyreal98]

For a long time, the amygdala was ignored by the cognitive neuroscience community, with the reasoning that the amygdala was an emotional structure and couldn't possibly be important to higher-order executive functions like attention and learning. Fast forward 20-30 years, and that view is certainly not mainstream anymore, with data indicating that emotion and amygdala functioning play a critical role in almost all executive functions. For example, emotional valence/salience have been shown to modulate the brain's attentional resources; and as of the last time I had a conversation with my PhD advisor about this, he said that he would argue that the amygdala is fundamentally a learning structure.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm not necessarily surprised that there seems to be a newfound interest in the cerebellum and I see a lot of parallels here with how the cognitive neuroscience community became more interested in the amygdala. Or as my fiance (who is also a neuroscientist) and I like to say- "Cerebellum is the new amygdala!"

 

[WisNeuro]

We've known that the cerebellum has been responsible for more than motor/coordination functioning for some time. There's been a lot of work linking some connections with emotion processing. And, there's more coming out on how it influences other cognitive processes, with attention and executive functioning probably having the most recent work done. I haven't delved into this area too much recently, but in the past it's been a lot of work done in the research realm for the non-motor functions of the cerebellum, but a much smaller footprint on translating that work to things within clinical practice.

 

[clausewitz2]

We've known that the cerebellum has been responsible for more than motor/coordination functioning for some time. There's been a lot of work linking some connections with emotion processing. And, there's more coming out on how it influences other cognitive processes, with attention and executive functioning probably having the most recent work done. I haven't delved into this area too much recently, but in the past it's been a lot of work done in the research realm for the non-motor functions of the cerebellum, but a much smaller footprint on translating that work to things within clinical practice.

It's also been an area of interest in neurolingüística for some time as well. A lot of work in speech production, so less surprising given motor involvement, but also seems to subserve aspects of morphology, which I think is harder to conceptualize in terms of unimodal motor plans.

 

[WisNeuro]

It's also been an area of interest in neurolingüística for some time as well. A lot of work in speech production, so less surprising given motor involvement, but also seems to subserve aspects of morphology, which I think is harder to conceptualize in terms of unimodal motor plans.

Speech production is pretty often over/underlooked at in the clinical realm. Providers generally look at basic things, paraphasic errors, circumlocution, basic comprehension and production, etc. But, in-depth language issues generally take quite a bit of time to fully tease out. Pretty much why you'll only see a full aphasia type battery done in specialty clinics and stroke rehab settings.