Cognitive Deficits after Focal Cerebellar Lesions

Abstract

Patients with focal cerebellar lesions due to tumor or hematoma were evaluated by a neuropsychological test battery, neurological examination and MRI, and cognitive function was correlated with location of the lesions in a study of 21 adult patients at the Department of Neurosurgery, Christian Albrechts Universitat, Kiel, Germany.

Keywords

• cerebral hemisphere
• verbal memory
• visual memory