OBJECTIVE: To describe the nature and frequency of posterior fossa (PF) lesions in infants who underwent magnetic resonance (MR) brain imaging in the neonatal period and to correlate with cranial ...

Spinal muscular atrophy affects all the body's muscles. For a long time, it was considered a disease caused solely by the loss of nerve cells in the spinal cord. Now, a research team at Leipzig ...

Spinal muscular atrophy is a rare genetic disease of the nerve cells in the spinal cord that can appear as early as infancy. The disease leads to a progressive loss of muscle strength. Those affected ...

The cerebellum is incorporated into the distributed neural circuits subserving motor control, cognitive processing and the modulation of emotion. This lecture provides an overview of anatomical ...

The worsening of the patient's MRI findings in best illustrated when the initial scan is compared directly to the follow-up scan as shown in Figure 5. The cerebellar vermian hyperintensities, mass ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This work tests the hypothesis that the cerebellum is critical to the perception of the timing of sensory events. Auditory tasks were used to ...