By Christopher Bergland As an evidence-based journalist who follows newsworthy trends in neuroscience, I’ve been keeping an eye on the rising popularity of the cerebellum (Latin for “little brain”). In recent weeks, this often-overlooked subcortical brain region has skyrocketed to buzzword status. I have a hunch “cerebellum” might be on the verge of becoming a household word such as “amygdala,” “hippocampus,” and “prefrontal cortex” that have made the rare leap from the esoteric lexicon of ...

The Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Ataxia Unit was the first and is now the most active such clinic in the US, providing comprehensive care to patients across the age spectrum who have disorders of cerebellum and related conditions. Started in 1994, and under the leadership of its founding director Jeremy Schmahmann, MD, the Unit has grown to three full-time attending ataxia neurologists and six Fellows who rotate through the Unit from the neurology divisions of movement disorders, general...