By recording neuronal activity while the animals carried out this task, the team found that neurons within the cerebellum were active between the start of the task and the licking action—the period ...

Understanding the broader brain circuitry will provide a more complete picture of the cerebellum’s role in anxiety. “The long-term goal in mice would be to complete the circuit: filling in the ...

The cerebellum is a fist-size structure tucked below the cerebral cortex—the part of the brain that we typically attribute to higher-order cognitive processes, including consciousness, language, and ...

Understanding the neural circuits that drive anxiety may help researchers discover circuit-specific targets ... that increased serotonin levels and the cerebellum may play roles in anxiety.

As a model, the cerebellum is experimentally tractable because it has an exquisitely organized architecture and well-understood circuit connections. The Sillitoe research team exploits these ...