Brain maturation and plasticity also depends upon the large nerve fiber tracts that connect different brain regions together. These include the corpus callosum that link the two cerebral ...

"We don't know exactly what the cerebellum is doing, but whatever it's doing, it's doing a lot of it. [...] White matter tracts are like fiber-optic cables that send communication signals between ...

SCA1 is thought to be caused by an expanded polyglutamine tract in an ataxin (ATXN1) protein that leads to damage and loss of Purkinje cells in the cerebellum. In addition, phosphorylation of a ...