{"id":83947,"date":"2018-10-25T10:03:03","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T17:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/minds-quality-control-center-found-in-long-ignored-brain-area"},"modified":"2018-10-25T15:04:52","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T22:04:52","slug":"minds-quality-control-center-found-in-long-ignored-brain-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/minds-quality-control-center-found-in-long-ignored-brain-area","title":{"rendered":"Mind\u2019s quality control center found in long-ignored brain area"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The cerebellum can\u2019t get no respect. Located inconveniently on the underside of the brain and initially thought to be limited to controlling movement, the cerebellum has long been treated like an afterthought by researchers studying higher brain functions.<\/p>\n

But researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis say overlooking the cerebellum is a mistake. Their findings, published Oct. 25 in Neuron<\/em>, suggest that the cerebellum has a hand in every aspect of higher brain functions \u2014 not just movement, but attention, thinking, planning and decision-making.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe biggest surprise to me was the discovery that 80 percent of the cerebellum is devoted to the smart stuff,\u201d said senior author Nico Dosenbach, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of neurology, of occupational therapy and of pediatrics. \u201cEveryone thought the cerebellum was about movement. If your cerebellum is damaged, you can\u2019t move smoothly \u00ad\u2014 your hand jerks around when you try to reach for something. Our research strongly suggests that just as the cerebellum serves as a quality check on movement, it also checks your thoughts as well \u2014 smoothing them out, correcting them, perfecting things.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The cerebellum can\u2019t get no respect. Located inconveniently on the underside of the brain and initially thought to be limited to controlling movement, the cerebellum has long been treated like an afterthought by researchers studying higher brain functions. But researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis say overlooking the cerebellum is a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83985,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83947\/revisions\/83985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}