Visual discrimination tasks of Affective Cues are subserved by Cerebellum as suggested by Event-related Potentials and Neuropsychology

Introduction: Affective dysfunction secondary to cerebellar lesions has been a relatively neglected phenomenon compared to increasing knowledge on associated cognitive disturbances. Aiming to gain new insights into the functional causation of affective and social malfunction related to cerebellar lesions, we studied affective discrimination in nine patients with cerebellar infarction by an established paradigm of Event-Related Potentials (ERP) and by the Tuebinger Affect Battery (TAB). Methods: Nine patients with subacute cerebellar infarction (dominating PICA territorium; 6 patients unilateral, 3 patients bilat…