1B). The developing cerebellum is particularly vulnerable to clinical and environmental factors, since much of growth in humans occurs in the third trimester and continues for a year after birth (Wang ...

In other words, the cerebellum helped orchestrate the motor commands from the cerebral cortex, the baseball glove–shaped structure that makes up most of the human brain and the organ’s master ...

Other areas, such as the cerebellum — an area at the back ... who is involved in efforts to catalogue cells in human, mouse and other brains. “The basic cellular architecture is remarkably ...

The hypothalamus is a small but critical region at the base of the brain that controls the autonomic nervous system, ...

Alcohol is broken down in the human body by two main enzymes ... Tolerance also plays a key role. After a mouse’s equivalent of a weekend bender, as they withdraw, the cerebellum adjusts to alcohol’s ...

Led by Zakharenko's colleague Tae-Yeon Eom, the researchers found that in mouse models deletion of ... lobes of the cerebellum that usually grow within are 70 percent smaller than normal.