The Cerebellum: Learning Movement, Language, and Social Skills
Author(s): Dianne M. Broussard (Author)
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Publication Date: 18 Oct. 2013
Edition: 1st
Language: English
Print length: 240 pages
ISBN-10: 1118125630
ISBN-13: 9781118125632
Book Description
The Cerebellum provides a concise, accessible overview of modern data on physiology and function of the cerebellum as it relates to learning, plasticity, and neurodegenerative diseases. Encompassing anatomy and physiology, theoretical work, cellular mechanisms, clinical research, and disorders, the book covers learning and plasticity while introducing the anatomy of the cerebellum. Known and proposed “functions of the cerebellum” are addressed on clinical, physiological, cellular, and computational levels, providing academics, researchers, medical students, and graduate students with an invaluable reference.
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The Cerebellum Learning Movement, Language, and Social Skills
Despite its compact size, the cerebellum plays an outsized role in many key functions from movement and balance to cognition and social skills. Understanding the impact of the cerebellum can provide deeper insight into the basis of everyday activities that we largely take for granted. The Cerebellum: Learning Movement, Language, and Social Skills provides the reader with an accessible and fascinating introduction to this essential part of the brain.
The Cerebellum: Learning Movement, Language, and Social Skills is divided into four parts. The first section summarizes the basic anatomy and physiology of the cerebellum and explains how it functions within the brain. The second section focuses on the role of the cerebellum in motor learning. Section three moves logically from motor learning to the cerebellar processes involved in precise, well-timed, and coordinated movement. The final section shifts its focus to explore how the cerebellum impacts language, working memory, and attention as well as emotional and social function.
Taken together, The Cerebellum: Learning Movement, Language, and Social Skills gives the reader a practical, general overview of cerebellar function and a deeper understanding of this important region of the brain.
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The Cerebellum Learning Movement, Language, and Social Skills
Despite its compact size, the cerebellum plays an outsized role in many key functions from movement and balance to cognition and social skills. Understanding the impact of the cerebellum can provide deeper insight into the basis of everyday activities that we largely take for granted. The Cerebellum: Learning Movement, Language, and Social Skills provides the reader with an accessible and fascinating introduction to this essential part of the brain.
The Cerebellum: Learning Movement, Language, and Social Skills is divided into four parts. The first section summarizes the basic anatomy and physiology of the cerebellum and explains how it functions within the brain. The second section focuses on the role of the cerebellum in motor learning. Section three moves logically from motor learning to the cerebellar processes involved in precise, well-timed, and coordinated movement. The final section shifts its focus to explore how the cerebellum impacts language, working memory, and attention as well as emotional and social function.
Taken together, The Cerebellum: Learning Movement, Language, and Social Skills gives the reader a practical, general overview of cerebellar function and a deeper understanding of this important region of the brain.
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Dianne M. Broussard is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Neurology and a member of the Collaborative Program in Neuroscience at the University of Toronto.
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