cerebellum

So when you see kids and they're skipping around and they're reading, It could be saccades, but it could be this issue in the cerebellum.

It doesn't necessarily have to be brainstem.

Cerebellum also handles smooth pursuits.

So being able to track something easily, maybe that's moving and gaze holding.

So when we talk about kids who can't make eye contact or they look really quickly and they look away, they can't maintain that.

That's cerebellum.

Let's see.

Cerebellum also controls the the saccade amplitude or the strength of it, the direction, initiates pursuits.

In 1906, diagnosed with a brain tumor, she turned her clinical gaze inward.

She authored the paper titled Description of the Early Symptoms of the Meningeal Tumor Compressing the Cerebellum, from which the writer died, written by herself.

Sitting there, knowing your mind and body are failing and deciding that your final act will be to contribute one last piece of raw neurological data to the scientific community.

I mean, it is staggeringly brave.

Frontal lobe, you know, is executive function.

Cerebellum is balance, things like that.

So I usually try to, before I meet the patient, go in and look at their chart, see where their tumor is, see what their presenting symptoms were.

A lot of times, especially with our primary brain tumor patients, they've been very, very healthy until all of a sudden they're not.