The Journal of nervous and mental disease . and others haveshown that the cerebellar cortex is an afiferent recipient intrinsic and the paracerebellar nuclei represent the only ef-ferent mechanism of the cerebellum. This conception is perhapsbest explained by Sherrington (26) who shows that this struc-ture is really a central organ of the proprioceptive system whichcontrols the tonus of the skeletal muscles. Viewing the cerebellum, in a broad sense, entirely as a motororgan, Kothmann (23;, and Babinski and Tournay (i) regardit as a collection of centers, capable of being dififerenti
The Journal of nervous and mental disease . and others haveshown that the cerebellar cortex is an afiferent recipient intrinsic and the paracerebellar nuclei represent the only ef-ferent mechanism of the cerebellum. This conception is perhapsbest explained by Sherrington (26) who shows that this struc-ture is really a central organ of the proprioceptive system whichcontrols the tonus of the skeletal muscles. Viewing the cerebellum, in a broad sense, entirely as a motororgan, Kothmann (23;, and Babinski and Tournay (i) regardit as a collection of centers, capable of being centers arc representative of voluntary or semi-voluntary,automatic or semi-automatic movements which enable the animalto maintain given postures, to walk, and to perform other motorfunctions in a regular and orderly manner. The i)henomcna LOCALIZATION OF FUNCTION IN CANINE CEREBELLUM 107 noted after certain ablation experiments (abduction or adductionof a limb, etc.) Rothmann explains as an abolition of certain LO BUS ANTERIOR. Fig. LOBULUSANSIFORMIS LOBULUSPARAMEOIANUS LOBULUSMEDIANUSPOSTE Rro P I. Diagram of the canine cerebellum to show Bolks new subdivisionsand nomenclature. antagonistic reflexes of the muscles which normally serve to regu-late the statotonus of the extremity concerned. These are theproprioceptive reflexes of Sherrington. Review of Studies on Cerebellar Localization Since Rynberks work many others have attacked the problemof cerebellar localization—among them Marassini (19), Luna(14), Hulshoff-Pol (11), Binnert (3), Horsley and Clarke (9)and Rothmann (23). Such studies have been continued in manby Barany (2), Mills and Weisenburg (20), and others. Inthe following paragraphs a brief outline is sketched of the resultsobtained from these investigations. Cms Priniuin of Lohidus Ansiforiiiis.—Lesions especially in-volving the short lamellae evoke symptoms in the homolateralforefoot. The entire crus is a foreleg center (Rynberk, Roth-mann). The me
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