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ReviewNeuroscience2020

The Cerebellar Nuclei and Dexterous Limb Movements.

Ayesha R Thanawalla, Albert I Chen, Eiman Azim

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Review in Neuroscience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. Cerebellar Functions Beyond Movement and Learning.Annual review of neuroscience · 2024
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  9. A frameshift mutation in the murinebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024
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  10. Pathophysiology of Dyt1-Science translational medicine · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Ayesha R ThanawallaMolecular Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 10010 N. Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
Albert I ChenNanyang Technological University (NTU), School of Biological Sciences, 11 Mandalay Road, Singapore 308232, Singapore; A*STAR, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, 61 Biopolis Drive, Singapore 308232, Singapore. Electronic address: albert.chen@ntu.edu.sg.
Eiman AzimMolecular Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 10010 N. Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA. Electronic address: eazim@salk.edu.

Funding

Spinal Circuits for the Control of Dextrous MovementU19NS112959 · NINDS · SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES · PI GOULDING, MARTYN D · 2019 to 2023
$14.3M
Neural control of skilled movements: an ethological dissection of genetically tractable mammalian motor circuitsDP2NS105555 · NINDS · SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES · PI AZIM, EIMAN · 2017 to 2022
$3.7M
Defining the anatomical, molecular and functional logic of internal copy circuits involved in dexterous forelimb behaviorsR01NS111479 · NINDS · SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES · PI AZIM, EIMAN · 2019 to 2023
$2.9M
NINDS NIH HHS DP2 NS105555NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS111479NINDS NIH HHS U19 NS112959
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dexterous forelimb movements like reaching, grasping, and manipulating objects are fundamental building blocks of the mammalian motor repertoire. These behaviors are essential to everyday activities, and their elaboration underlies incredible accomplishments by human beings in art and sport. Moreover, the susceptibility of these behaviors to damage and disease of the nervous system can lead to debilitating deficits, highlighting a need for a better understanding of function and dysfunction in sensorimotor control. The cerebellum is central to coordinating limb movements, as defined in large part by Joseph Babinski and Gordon Holmes describing motor impairment in patients with cerebellar lesions over 100 years ago (Babinski, 1902; Holmes, 1917), and supported by many important human and animal studies that have been conducted since. Here, with a focus on output pathways of the cerebellar nuclei across mammalian species, we describe forelimb movement deficits observed when cerebellar circuits are perturbed, the mechanisms through which these circuits influence motor output, and key challenges in defining how the cerebellum refines limb movement.

Indexed as

Cerebellar NucleiMovementAnimalsCerebellumForelimbHand StrengthHumansAtaxiaCerebellar nucleiDysmetriaGraspInternal copyReach

Identifiers

PMID32652173
PMCPMC7688491

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