<story><title>What does the cerebellum do?</title><url>https://sarahconstantin.substack.com/p/what-does-the-cerebellum-do-anyway</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>akavi</author><text>This is &lt;i&gt;fascinating&lt;/i&gt; to me. The list of things the author suggests the cerebellum handles is a tailor-made list of things I&amp;#x27;m oddly bad at:&lt;p&gt;1. I&amp;#x27;m very uncoordinated, with a noticeable intentional tremor&lt;p&gt;2. I&amp;#x27;m particularly bad at sequencing dependencies for projects&amp;#x2F;errands&amp;#x2F;household tasks. I have to write down even fairly simple sequences of subtasks or get lost in yak-shaving loops&lt;p&gt;3. When flustered, I make very distinctive disfluencies in speech around conjugations (swapping &amp;quot;but&amp;quot;&amp;#x2F;&amp;quot;and&amp;quot;&amp;#x2F;&amp;quot;although&amp;quot;) and sequencing (ie, placing objects before subjects&amp;#x2F;verbs) in sentences as well swapping relationships (referring to someone&amp;#x27;s parent as their child or vice versa, swapping &amp;quot;you&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;I&amp;#x2F;me&amp;quot;, etc)&lt;p&gt;4. I tend to have a &amp;quot;ground up&amp;quot; approach to writing (building clauses first and then moving them around to construct sentences), which doesn&amp;#x27;t resemble the approach of other people I&amp;#x27;ve shoulder-surfed.&lt;p&gt;All of these are fairly mild in terms of life impact, to be clear (or perhaps I&amp;#x27;m just able to satisfactorily compensate for them in various ways) but I wonder if they all share some underlying minor cerebellar dysfunction.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>codeflo</author><text>I thought that the list of cognitive impairments sounds like a laundry list of ASD symptoms, and indeed, at least some researchers seem to believe that there&amp;#x27;s a connection between Autism and cerebellum dysfunction:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&amp;#x2F;pmc&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;PMC3677555&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&amp;#x2F;pmc&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;PMC3677555&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>What does the cerebellum do?</title><url>https://sarahconstantin.substack.com/p/what-does-the-cerebellum-do-anyway</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>akavi</author><text>This is &lt;i&gt;fascinating&lt;/i&gt; to me. The list of things the author suggests the cerebellum handles is a tailor-made list of things I&amp;#x27;m oddly bad at:&lt;p&gt;1. I&amp;#x27;m very uncoordinated, with a noticeable intentional tremor&lt;p&gt;2. I&amp;#x27;m particularly bad at sequencing dependencies for projects&amp;#x2F;errands&amp;#x2F;household tasks. I have to write down even fairly simple sequences of subtasks or get lost in yak-shaving loops&lt;p&gt;3. When flustered, I make very distinctive disfluencies in speech around conjugations (swapping &amp;quot;but&amp;quot;&amp;#x2F;&amp;quot;and&amp;quot;&amp;#x2F;&amp;quot;although&amp;quot;) and sequencing (ie, placing objects before subjects&amp;#x2F;verbs) in sentences as well swapping relationships (referring to someone&amp;#x27;s parent as their child or vice versa, swapping &amp;quot;you&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;I&amp;#x2F;me&amp;quot;, etc)&lt;p&gt;4. I tend to have a &amp;quot;ground up&amp;quot; approach to writing (building clauses first and then moving them around to construct sentences), which doesn&amp;#x27;t resemble the approach of other people I&amp;#x27;ve shoulder-surfed.&lt;p&gt;All of these are fairly mild in terms of life impact, to be clear (or perhaps I&amp;#x27;m just able to satisfactorily compensate for them in various ways) but I wonder if they all share some underlying minor cerebellar dysfunction.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>plufz</author><text>Often with the brain multiple regions are needed for a single function. For example planing action including movement has much to do with the prefrontal cortex and the basal ganglia is much involved in making smooth motions and inhibiting tremors, etc. Problems with the dopamine system also affect things like planing (ADHD) and tremors (Parkinson’s).</text></comment>