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Normal cognitive and social development require posterior cerebellar activity

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Badura, Aleksandra, Verpeut, Jessica L, Metzger, Julia W, Pereira, Talmo D, Pisano, Thomas J, Deverett, Ben, Bakshinskaya, Dariya E, Wang, Samuel S-H·2018·eLife

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Cognitive and social capacities require postnatal experience, yet the pathways by which experience guides development are unknown. Here we show that the normal development of motor and nonmotor capacities requires cerebellar activity. Using chemogenetic perturbation of molecular layer interneurons to attenuate cerebellar output in mice, we found that activity of posterior regions in juvenile life modulates adult expression of eyeblink conditioning (paravermal lobule VI, crus I), reversal learning (lobule VI), persistive behavior and novelty-seeking (lobule VII), and social preference (crus I/II). Perturbation in adult life altered only a subset of phenotypes. Both adult and juvenile disruption left gait metrics largely unaffected. Contributions to phenotypes increased with the amount of lobule inactivated. Using an anterograde transsynaptic tracer, we found that posterior cerebellum made strong connections with prelimbic, orbitofrontal, and anterior cingulate cortex. These findings provide anatomical substrates for the clinical observation that cerebellar injury increases the risk of autism.

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Authors
Badura, A., Verpeut, J. L., Metzger, J. W., Pereira, T. D., Pisano, T. J., Deverett, B., Bakshinskaya, D. E., & Wang, S. S.-H.
Affiliations
  • Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NL)
  • Princeton University (US)
  • Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (US)
Corresponding author
Wang, Samuel S-H
Venue
eLife
Published
2018-09-20
Volume
7
ISSN
2050-084X (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2889806840
Cited by
205
References
76
Citations by year
2026: 16 · 2025: 25 · 2024: 32 · 2023: 33 · 2022: 27 · 2021: 30 · 2020: 27 · 2019: 14 · 2017: 1
FWCI
10.57
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
  • KNAW Research Portal (The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Funders
  • Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (Innovational Research Incentives Scheme VENI (NWO,ZonMw))
  • Nancy Lurie Marks Family Foundation
  • National Institutes of Health (R01 NS045193, R01 MH115750, F30 MH115577, F31 NS089303)
  • New Jersey Commission on Brain Injury Research (CBIR16FEL010)
  • National Science Foundation (Graduate Research Fellowship DGE-1148900)
  • Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School-Princeton University M.D.-Ph.D. Program
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Motor Control and Adaptation
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
Keywords
posterior cerebellum, cerebellar development, molecular layer interneurons, eyeblink conditioning, reversal learning, social preferences, novelty seeking, orbitofrontal cortex, anterior cingulate cortex, prelimbic cortex, autism risk, postnatal experience, gait
MeSH terms
Animals, Autistic Disorder, Behavior, Animal, Brain Mapping, Cerebellum, Cognition, Disease Models, Animal, Humans, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Interneurons, Learning, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Neural Pathways, Social Change, Mice

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