http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. A dysfunction of a certain Calcium channel, the so called P/Q-type channel, in neurons of the cerebellum is sufficient to cause different motor diseases as well as a special type of epilepsy. This is reported by the research team of Dr. Melanie Mark and Prof. Dr. Stefan Herlitze from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. They investigated mice that lacked the ion channel of the P/Q-type in the modulatory input neurons of the cerebellum. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-dysfunction-cerebellar-calcium-channel-motor.html Neuroscience Thu, 21 Mar 2013 09:20:56 EST news283076448 Deleting a single gene in the cerebellum of mice can cause key autistic-like symptoms, researchers have found. They also discovered that rapamycin, a commonly used immunosuppressant drug, prevented these symptoms. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-deleting-gene-results-autism-like-behavior.html Genetics Mon, 02 Jul 2012 17:33:36 EST news260469139 Research at the University of Calgary's Hotchkiss Brain Institute (HBI) has demonstrated the novel expression of an ion channel in Purkinje cells – specialized neurons in the cerebellum, the area of the brain responsible for movement. Ray W. Turner, PhD, Professor in the Department of Cell Biology & Anatomy and PhD student Jordan Engbers and colleagues published this finding in the January edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-unexpected-discovery-reveals-mechanism-cerebellum.html Neuroscience Wed, 21 Mar 2012 09:28:20 EST news251540878