CEREBELLAR SYMPTOMS AND CEREBELLAR LOCALIZATION

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RECENT ADVANCES IN CEREBELLAR SYMPTOMATOLOGY In recent years, and especially under the lead of Babinski and Rothmann, some features of the old cerebellar symptomatology have come to be looked on in a different light and some of the symptoms regarded as elementary have been subjected to considerable dissection. The so-called cerebellar ataxia, now regarded as a symptom complex rather than as a pure symptom, has been more clearly differentiated from the ataxia of tabetics. Luciani's astasia, asthenia and atonia are acquiring a new interpretation. Our studies emphasize the fact that asynergy is the fundamental symptom of cerebellar disease. Cerebellar tremor and the new symptoms, hypermetry and adiadokocinesis, all now recognized as important cerebellar disorders, when reduced to their symptomatic elements, are seen to be dependent in large part if not entirely on loss or disturbance in the power of performing more or less complex movements together for the accomplishment of

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