Medical News Today: Key brain area plays a crucial role in addiction
New research finds that the brain's cerebellum is involved in reward processing and social behavior. The findings shed new light on addictive behavior. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - January 19, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs Source Type: news
Science News » New Findings Reveal Surprising Role of the Cerebellum in Reward and Social Behaviors
A new study in rodents has demonstrated, for the first time, that the brain ’ s cerebellum plays a role in controlling reward and social preference behavior — findings that shed light on the brain circuits critical to the affective and social dysfunction seen across multiple psychiatric disorders. (Source: National Institute of Mental Health)
Source: National Institute of Mental Health - January 18, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Claire Cole Source Type: news
Brain's Cerebellum Found to Influence Addictive and Social Behavior
BRONX, NY—(January 17, 2019)—In a study published online today in the journal Science, researchers atAlbert Einstein College of Medicine, part ofMontefiore, prove for the first time that the brain’s cerebellum—long thought to be mainly involved in coordinating movement—helps control the brain’s reward circuitry. The surprising finding indicates that the cerebellum plays a major role in reward processing and social behaviors and could potentially lead to new strategies for treating addiction. (Source: Einstein News)
Source: Einstein News - January 17, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
New Findings Reveal Surprising Role of the Cerebellum in Reward and Social Behaviors
NIH-funded study sheds new light on brain circuits related to affective and social dysfunction. (Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH) News Releases)
Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH) News Releases - January 17, 2019 Category: American Health Source Type: news
New findings reveal surprising role of the cerebellum in reward and social behaviors
(NIH/National Institute of Mental Health) A study in rodents found that the brain's cerebellum -- known to play a role in motor coordination -- also helps control the brain's reward circuitry. Researchers found a direct neural connection from the cerebellum to the ventral tegmental area (a brain area long known to be involved in reward processing and encoding). The findings shed light on the brain circuits critical to the affective and social dysfunction seen across multiple psychiatric disorders. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - January 17, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
The cerebellum gets social
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Source: ScienceNOW - January 17, 2019 Category: Science Authors: D'Angelo, E. Tags: Neuroscience perspective Source Type: news
The cerebellum and reward-driven behavior
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Source: ScienceNOW - January 17, 2019 Category: Science Authors: Stern, P. Tags: Neuroscience twis Source Type: news
Cerebellar modulation of the reward circuitry and social behavior
The cerebellum has been implicated in a number of nonmotor mental disorders such as autism spectrum disorder, schizophrenia, and addiction. However, its contribution to these disorders is not well understood. In mice, we found that the cerebellum sends direct excitatory projections to the ventral tegmental area (VTA), one of the brain regions that processes and encodes reward. Optogenetic activation of the cerebello-VTA projections was rewarding and, in a three-chamber social task, these projections were more active when the animal explored the social chamber. Intriguingly, activity in the cerebello-VTA pathway was require...
Source: ScienceNOW - January 17, 2019 Category: Science Authors: Carta, I., Chen, C. H., Schott, A. L., Dorizan, S., Khodakhah, K. Tags: Neuroscience, Online Only r-articles Source Type: news
Cerebellar Contributions to Major Depression - Depping MS, Schmitgen MM, Kubera KM, Wolf RC.
Extending beyond the motor domain, the cerebellum is involved in various aspects of cognition and affect. Multidisciplinary evidence has demonstrated topographic organization of higher-order cognitive functions within the cerebellum. We here review recent ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 19, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Suicide and Self-Harm Source Type: news
Teenager has a stroke after tearing an artery in his neck on a water slide
The unnamed 16-year-old presented to Rashid Hospital in Dubai after being unable to walk or stand for the past 16 hours. A CT scan revealed he had a stroke in the cerebellum in his brain. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - December 14, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Cerebellum Stimulation Improves Gait and Balance After Stroke Cerebellum Stimulation Improves Gait and Balance After Stroke
A new study opens up the cerebellum as a novel brain area of interest in the recovery of stroke patients.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - November 30, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Neurology & Neurosurgery News Source Type: news
Making moves and memories, are they connected?
(Baylor College of Medicine) Researchers report the first direct evidence that the cerebellum does more than just control muscle activity. It also plays a role in cognitive functions. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - November 15, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Cerebellum Does & ldquo;Quality Control & rdquo; for Our Thoughts: Study
FMRI data uncover wide variation in network organization between individuals in this oft-neglected brain region. (Source: The Scientist)
Source: The Scientist - November 1, 2018 Category: Science Tags: News & Opinion Source Type: news
Cerebellum Does "Quality Control" for Our Thoughts: Study
FMRI data uncover wide variation in network organization between individuals in this oft-neglected brain region. (Source: The Scientist)
Source: The Scientist - November 1, 2018 Category: Science Tags: News & Opinion Source Type: news
Researchers find disrupted functional connectivity in cerebellum of adults with HF-ASD
(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) A new study using an unbiased, whole-brain data-driven approach to assess the resting-state functional connectome in young adults with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder (HF-ASD) found two clusters of abnormal connectivity in the cerebellum. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - September 5, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
