ArticleNature communications2017
Genetic silencing of olivocerebellar synapses causes dystonia-like behaviour in mice.
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- Axonal pathology differentially affects human Purkinje cell subpopulations in the essential tremor cerebellum.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Purkinje Cell spike patterns do not correlate with nuclei cell spike patterns in mouse models for cerebellar disease.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Aberrant outputs of glutamatergic neurons in deep cerebellar nuclei mediate dystonic movements.Science advances · 2025Article
- Thalamic deep brain stimulation improves movement in a cerebellar model of lesion-based status dystonicus.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2025Article
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- Cerebellar deep brain stimulation as a dual-function therapeutic for restoring movement and sleep in dystonic mice.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2024Article
- A spatial-temporal map of glutamatergic neurogenesis in the murine embryonic cerebellar nuclei uncovers a high degree of cellular heterogeneity.Journal of anatomy · 2024Article
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- Cerebellar Functions Beyond Movement and Learning.Annual review of neuroscience · 2024Review
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Abstract
Theories of cerebellar function place the inferior olive to cerebellum connection at the centre of motor behaviour. One possible implication of this is that disruption of olivocerebellar signalling could play a major role in initiating motor disease. To test this, we devised a mouse genetics approach to silence glutamatergic signalling only at olivocerebellar synapses. The resulting mice had a severe neurological condition that mimicked the early-onset twisting, stiff limbs and tremor that is observed in dystonia, a debilitating movement disease. By blocking olivocerebellar excitatory neurotransmission, we eliminated Purkinje cell complex spikes and induced aberrant cerebellar nuclear activity. Pharmacologically inhibiting the erratic output of the cerebellar nuclei in the mutant mice improved movement. Furthermore, deep brain stimulation directed to the interposed cerebellar nuclei reduced dystonia-like postures in these mice. Collectively, our data uncover a neural mechanism by which olivocerebellar dysfunction promotes motor disease phenotypes and identify the cerebellar nuclei as a therapeutic target for surgical intervention.
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