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Plasticity of cerebro-cerebellar interactions in patients with cerebellar dysfunction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 May 2011

Karl Wessel
Affiliation:
Department of Neurology, Medical University of Luebeck, D-23538 Leubeck, Germany, wessel@medinf.mu-luebeck.de

Abstract

Studies comparing movement-related cortical potentials, post-excitatory inhibition after transcranial magnetic brain stimulation, and PET findings in normal controls and patients with cerebellar degeneration demonstrate plasticity of cerebro-cerebellar interactions and hereby support Thach's theory that the cerebellum has the ability to play a role in building behavioral context-response linkages and to build up appropriate responses from simpler constitutive elements, [THACH]

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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