1. The critical need to develop tools assessing cerebellar reserve for the delivery and assessment of non-invasive cerebellar stimulation
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Mario Manto, Hiroshi Mitoma, and Shinji Kakei
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Cerebellum ,Neurology ,tDCS ,lcsh:RC346-429 ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Atrophy ,Daily practice ,medicine ,Cerebellar disorder ,Non invasive stimulation ,Letter to the Editor ,Reserve ,lcsh:Neurology. Diseases of the nervous system ,030304 developmental biology ,0303 health sciences ,business.industry ,Non invasive ,medicine.disease ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Cerebellar stimulation ,nervous system ,TMS ,Neurology (clinical) ,Neurosurgery ,business ,Neuroscience ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
Non-invasive cerebellar stimulation (NICS) aims to modulate cerebello-cerebral loops and cerebro-spinal loops, both for research and clinical applications. It is of paramount importance to establish and validate morphological and functional tools to quantify cerebellar reserve, defined as the capacity for restoration and compensation to pathology of the cerebellum. Using NICS without efforts to estimate cerebellar reserve will end up in conflicting results due to the very high heterogeneity of cerebellar disorders encountered in daily practice.
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- 2021