Topic: emotional associative learning

Although cerebellum has traditionally been considered a motor control structure, a growing body of evidence highlights its crucial role among the neural networks that subserve emotionally related behaviors. In fact, anatomical studies in rodents and functional connectivity MRI studies in humans have shown that extensive interconnections exist between the cerebellum and structures of the emotional control network, including medial prefrontal (mPFC) and parietal cortices, hippocampus, amygdala and periaqueductal gray. Accordingly, accumulating evidence supports a critical role of the cerebellum