University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, USA.
Am J Speech Lang Pathol. 2011 Nov;20(4):337-47. doi: 10.1044/1058-0360(2011/10-0096). Epub 2011 Aug 5.
To explore increasingly compelling evidence that the adult human cerebellum is involved in nonmotor affective and cognitive activity, including language-functions that have in the past been associated largely with the limbic system and the cerebral cortex.
We review clinical studies of patients with cerebellar lesions, nonclinical neuroimaging studies of individuals engaged in completing selected tasks, and neuroanatomical as well as neuroimaging studies of brain interconnections. In the course of this review, we also report on a variety of hypotheses regarding the nature of the cerebellum's work in affective processing and language/cognition.
This review suggests that the cerebellum has considerable influence in language processing and other related higher level affective/cognitive activities.
We conclude with a preliminary list of important clinical implications of these results.
探索越来越多的证据表明，成人小脑参与非运动情感和认知活动，包括过去主要与边缘系统和大脑皮层相关的语言功能。
我们回顾了小脑损伤患者的临床研究、参与特定任务完成的非临床神经影像学研究以及大脑连接的神经解剖学和神经影像学研究。在这篇综述中，我们还报告了各种关于小脑在情感处理和语言/认知中的作用的假设。
这篇综述表明，小脑对语言处理和其他相关高级情感/认知活动有很大的影响。
我们的结论是，这些结果具有重要的临床意义。
