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  • Developmental Biology
  • Behavioral Science

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  • Postnatal experience is essential for cognitive and social development.
  • The precise mechanisms by which experience shapes neural development remain unclear.
  • The cerebellum's role in higher cognitive functions is increasingly recognized.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the necessity of cerebellar activity for the development of motor and nonmotor capacities.
  • To determine the impact of early-life cerebellar perturbation on adult behavior.
  • To identify the specific cerebellar regions and their connections involved in modulating behavior.

Main Methods:

  • Chemogenetic perturbation of cerebellar molecular layer interneurons in mice to attenuate cerebellar output.
  • Assessment of adult behavioral phenotypes including eyeblink conditioning, reversal learning, persistence, novelty-seeking, and social preference.
  • Analysis of gait metrics.
  • Anterograde transsynaptic tracing to map cerebellar connectivity.

Main Results:

  • Juvenile cerebellar activity attenuation impaired adult eyeblink conditioning, reversal learning, persistence, novelty-seeking, and social preference.
  • Adult perturbation affected only a subset of these phenotypes.
  • Gait metrics were largely unaffected by both juvenile and adult perturbations.
  • Posterior cerebellar regions showed strong connections with prelimbic, orbitofrontal, and anterior cingulate cortex.

Conclusions:

  • Cerebellar activity during juvenile life is critical for the normal development of diverse cognitive and social capacities.
  • These findings highlight the cerebellum's role in experience-guided development and provide anatomical links to clinical observations of autism risk following cerebellar injury.