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C Colombel1, R Lalonde, J Caston
1UPRES PSY.CO EA 1780, Faculté des Sciences, Laboratoire de Neurobiologie de l'Apprentissage, Université de Rouen, 76821 Mont-Saint-Aignan Cedex, France.
Brain Research
|March 23, 2004
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Left or right unilateral removal of a cerebellar hemisphere altered visuo-motor coordination as well as spatial representation of the environment. Moreover, the operated rats were unable to adapt their behavior to a novel situation, suggesting frontal dysfunctions similar to those demonstrated in human cerebellar syndromes.
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