Key Points
I am referring to the cerebellum, so named for the Latin for little brain, which is situated like a bun at the back of the brain..
New experimental techniques are showing that in addition to controlling movement, the cerebellum regulates complex behaviors, social interactions, aggression, working memory, learning, emotion, and more...
Over the decades, neuroscientists developed a detailed understanding of how the cerebellums unique neural circuitry controls motor function..
Despite these clues from clinical studies that conventional wisdom was on the wrong track, leading authorities still insisted that the function of the cerebellum was to control movement and nothing more..
However, there was no hard anatomical evidence for how the cerebellums unique neural circuitry could possibly regulate the reported psychological and emotional functions, so the clinical reports were overlooked..
