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Issue title: Trends in Cerebellar Research
Article type: Research Article
Authors: Stoodley, Catherine J.; | Valera, Eve M. | Schmahmann, Jeremy D.; ;
Affiliations: Cognitive/Behavioral Neurology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA | Laboratory for Neuroanatomy and Cerebellar Neurobiology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA | Ataxia Unit, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA | Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging and Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Note: [] Corresponding author: Catherine J. Stoodley, D. Phil., Cognitive / Behavioral Neurology Unit, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 175 Cambridge Street, Suite 340, Boston, MA 02114, USA. Tel.: +1 617 726 3669; Fax: +1 617 724 7836; E-mail: cstoodley@partners.org
Abstract: Neuroimaging studies report cerebellar activation during both motor and non-motor paradigms, and suggest a functional topography within the cerebellum. Sensorimotor tasks activate the anterior lobe, parts of lobule VI, and lobule VIII, whereas higher-level tasks activate lobules VI and VII in the posterior lobe. To determine whether these activation patterns are evident at a single-subject level, we conducted functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during five tasks investigating sensorimotor (finger tapping), language (verb generation), spatial (mental rotation), working memory (N-back), and emotional processing (viewing images from the International Affective Picture System). Finger tapping activated the ipsilateral anterior lobe (lobules IV-V) as well as lobules VI and VIII. Activation during verb generation was found in right lobules VII and VIIIA. Mental rotation activated left-lateralized clusters in lobules VII-VIIIA, VI-Crus I, and midline VIIAt. The N-back task showed bilateral activation in right lobules VI-Crus I and left lobules VIIB-VIIIA. Cerebellar activation was evident bilaterally in lobule VI while viewing arousing vs. neutral images. This fMRI study provides the first proof of principle demonstration that there is topographic organization of motor execution vs. cognitive/emotional domains within the cerebellum of a single individual, likely reflecting the anatomical specificity of cerebro-cerebellar circuits underlying different task domains. Inter-subject variability of motor and non-motor topography remains to be determined.
Keywords: Cerebellum, topography, functional MRI, cognition, motor
DOI: 10.3233/BEN-2010-0268
Journal: Behavioural Neurology, vol. 23, no. 1-2, pp. 65-79, 2010
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