Publications by authors named "E Wondzinski"
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- The study investigated cognitive impairments in cerebellar disorders and identified two subtypes of cerebellar cognitive affective syndrome (CCAS) using cluster analysis.
- The German CCAS-Scale was utilized to assess 205 cerebellar patients and 200 controls, revealing one cluster with severe cognitive impairment and another with milder deficits that often overlapped with healthy controls.
- Findings suggest that cognitive performance in cerebellar patients is influenced by both demographic factors and cluster assignment, indicating that the assessment tool may struggle to detect milder impairments.
Background: Traditionally, cerebellar disorders including ataxias have been associated with deficits in motor control and motor learning. Since the 1980's growing evidence has emerged that cerebellar diseases also impede cognitive and affective processes such as executive and linguistic functions, visuospatial abilities and regulation of emotion and affect. This combination of non-motor symptoms has been named .
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn the present study extinction and renewal of cognitive associations were assessed in two experiments in participants with focal and degenerative cerebellar disease. Using a predictive learning task, participants had to learn by trial and error the relationships between food items and the occurrence of stomach trouble in a hypothetical patient. In the first experiment, focus was on renewal effects.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFExtinction of conditioned aversive responses (CR) has been shown to be context-dependent. The hippocampus and prefrontal cortex are of particular importance. The cerebellum may contribute to context-related processes because of its known connections with the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex.
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