The Cerebellum and Cognition

Professor Peter Jenner is a specialist in preclinical aspects of neurodegenerative diseases, notably Parkinson’s disease. He has spent the major part of his career at King’s College London where he was Head of Pharmacology for 14 years before returning to his research roots and subsequently becoming Emeritus Professor of Pharmacology. Peter has expertise in drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics but neuropharmacology based on functional models of neurodegenerative diseases has formed the major focus of his work. Peter holds a BPharm, PhD and DSc degree from the University of London. He has published well over 1000 articles with more than 700 peer reviewed papers. He is a Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, the British Pharmacological Society, the Royal Society of Medicine and of King’s College London. Peter was recently honoured with a Doctor Honoris Causa degree from Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest and made an Honorary Fellow of The British Pharmacological Society for his contribution to research in to movement disorders. Peter has worked closely with the pharmaceutical industry for many years and acts as an adviser and consultant to both major pharma and biotech companies. He has a wide knowledge of the drug discovery and drug development process and has been involved from molecule synthesis through to drug registration for use in man. Peter was the Founder, Director and Chief Scientific Officer of Proximagen, a biotech focussed on the treatment and cure of neurodegenerative diseases that was listed on AIMs and subsequently purchased by a US based healthcare company. He is a regular speaker at international meetings and also takes time to speak at Parkinson’s disease patient-carer groups across the UK.

Historical Overview:
J.D. Schmahmann, Rediscovery of an Early Concept.
Anatomic Substrates:
J.D. Schmahmann and D.N. Pandya, The Cerebrocerebellar System.
F.A. Middleton and P.L. Strick, Cerebellar Output Channels.
D.E. Haines, E. Dietrichs, G.A. Mihailoff, and E.F. McDonald, Cerebellar-Hypothalamic Axis: Basic Circuits and Clinical Observations.
Physiological Observations:
A.J. Berman, Amelioration of Aggression: Response to Selective Cerebellar Lesions in the Rhesus Monkey.
D.J. Reis, Autonomic and Vascular Regulation.
R.F. Thompson, S. Bao, L. Chen, B.D. Cipriano, J.S. Grethe, J.J. Kim, J.K. Thompson, J.-A. Tracy, M.S. Weninger, and D.J. Krupa, Associative Learning.
R. Lalonde, Visualspatial Abilities.
M. Molinari, L. Petrosini, and L.G. Grammaldo, Spatial Event Processing.
Functional Neuroimaging Studies:
J.A. Fiez and M.E. Raichle, Linguistic Processing.
L.M. Parsons and P.T. Fox, Sensory and Cognitive Functions.
J. Doyon, Skill Learning.
Clinical and Neurophysiological Observations:
M. Hallett and J. Grafman, Executive Function and Motor Skill Learning.
M. Molinari, M.G. Leggio, and M.C. Silveri, Verbal Fluency and Agrammatism.
D.S. Woodruff-Pak, Classical Conditioning.
M.L.Bauman, P.A. Filipek, and T.L. Kemper, Early Infantile Autism.
T. Botez-Marquard and M.I. Botez, Olivopontocerebellar Atrophy and Friedrich's Ataxia: Neurophychological Consequences of Bilateral versus Unilateral Cerebellar Lesions.
I.F. Pollack, Posterior Fossa Syndrome.
J.D. Schmahmann and J.C. Sherman, Cerebellar Cognitive Affective Syndrome.
C.W. Wallesch and C. Bartels, Inherited Cerebellar Diseases.
I. Daum and H. Ackermann, Neuropsychological Abnormalities in Cerebellar Syndromes--Fact or Fiction?
Theoretical Considerations:
M. Ito, Cerebellar Microcomplexes.
J.M. Bower, Control of Sensory Data Acquisition.
M. Paulin, Neural Representations of Moving Systems.
H.C. Leiner and A.L. Leiner, How Fibers Subserve Computing Capabilities: Similarities between Brains and Machines.
R. Ivry, Cerebellar Timing System.
N.A. Akshoomoff, E. Courchesne, and J. Townsend, Attention Coordination and Anticipatory Control.
W.T. Thach, Context-Response Linkage.
J.R. Bloedel and V. Bracha, Duality of Cerebellar Motor and Cognitive Functions.
Future Directions:
J.D. Schmahmann, Therapeutic and Research Implications.
Index.
Contents of Recent Volumes.