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Essentials of Cerebellum and Cerebellar Disorders

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The cerebellum receives substantial input from visual and eye movement-related areas by way of the pons. These signals are used to guide and refine motor behavior and to establish spatial orientation. Accordingly, damage to the cerebellum can lead to imprecise eye movements and deficits in visual perception. Here we discuss cerebro-cerebellar circuits supporting vision.

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  1. Department of Cognitive Neurology, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tübingen, Hoppe-Seyler-Strasse 3, 72076, Tübingen, Germany

    Manuel Jan Roth, Axel Lindner & Peter Thier

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  1. Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience Department, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, USA

    Donna L. Gruol

  2. Department of Integrative Physiology, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan

    Noriyuki Koibuchi

  3. FNRS, ULB-Erasme, Bruxelles, Belgium

    Mario Manto

  4. Clinical Translational Research, Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome, Italy

    Marco Molinari

  5. Ataxia Unit, Cognitive Behavioral Neurology Unit, Laboratory for Neuroanatomy and Cerebellar Neurobiology, Department of Neurology Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Jeremy D. Schmahmann

  6. Department of Neurobiology, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China

    Ying Shen

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Roth, M.J., Lindner, A., Thier, P. (2016). Visual Circuits. In: Gruol, D., Koibuchi, N., Manto, M., Molinari, M., Schmahmann, J., Shen, Y. (eds) Essentials of Cerebellum and Cerebellar Disorders. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24551-5_10

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