Abstract
The cerebellum contributes to virtually all aspects of behavior in health and disease. Cerebellar findings are common across different types of neuroimaging studies of brain function and dysfunction. A large and expanding body of literature map** motor and non-motor functions in the healthy human cerebellar cortex using fMRI has served as a tool for interpreting these observations. For example, cerebellar atrophy in Alzheimer’s disease in some areas of Crus I/II and lobule IX can be interpreted by consulting a large number of task, resting-state, and gradient-based reports that describe the functional characteristics of these focal regions of the cerebellar cortex. Here, we summarize the organizational principles observed consistently across these imaging studies of the cerebellum. This basic framework may be useful for investigators performing or reading experiments that require a functional interpretation of human cerebellar topography. Text in this chapter is adapted, updated, and expanded based on a prior publication by the same authors (Guell and Schmahmann, Cerebellum. 19:1–5, 2020).
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Guell, X., Schmahmann, J.D. (2023). fMRI-Based Anatomy: Map** the Cerebellum. In: Gruol, D.L., Koibuchi, N., Manto, M., Molinari, M., Schmahmann, J.D., Shen, Y. (eds) Essentials of Cerebellum and Cerebellar Disorders. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15070-8_54
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