The cerebellum has been considered only as a classical subcortical center for motor control.
However, accumulating experimental and clinical evidences have revealed that the
cerebellum also plays an important role in cognition, for instance, in learning and memory,
as well as in emotional behavior and in nonsomatic activities, such as visceral and
immunological responses. Although it is not yet clear through which pathways such
cerebellar nonsomatic functions are mediated, the direct bidirectional connections between …