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Cerebellar deep nuclei

"Fat Girls Eat Doritos":
· From medial to lateral:
Fastigial
Globose
Emboliform
Dentate
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Cerebellar peduncles: afferent vs efferent

SEMA:
Superior cerebellar peduncle
Efferent (fibres)
Middle cerebellar peduncle
Afferent (fibres)
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---Durre Dow Medical College, Pakistan

Geniculate bodies: paired to respective colliculi

SLIM:
Superior colliculi: Lateral geniculate body.
Inferior colliculi: Medial geniculate body.
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---Durre Dow Medical College, Pakistan

Cerebellar damage signs

DANISH:
Dysdiadochokinesis
Ataxia
Nystagmus
Intention tremor
Slurred speech
Hypotonia
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---Grant Wilde and Kristian Mears University of Leicester and University of Nottingham, UK

Cerebellar functional areas

Anatomical shape/location of cerebellar areas is a key to their function and related tract.
· Vermis = Spinocerebellar = Axial equilibrium.
Vermis: right down the axis of cerebellum, and vertically segmented like a spinal column.
· Flocculonodular lobe = Vestibulocerebellar = Ear, eye, body coordination.
Flocculonodular lobe: flares out to the edges, just like ears.
· Hemispheres of cerebellum = Cerebrocerebellar = Peripheral coordination.
Hemispheres: around periphery of cerebellum, and tract to cerebral hemispheres.

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---Neil Bratney, M1 U. Nebraska Med Ctr

Auditory pathway: mandatory stops

"Come In My Baritone":
Cochlear nucleus
Inferior colliculus
Medial geniculate nucleus
Brodmann's 41 (cortex)
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---Anonymous Contributor Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

Olivary nuclei: ear vs. eye roles

Superior Olivary nucleus: SOund localization.
· Inferior olivary nucleus is therefore the one for sight [tactile, proprioception also].
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---Miruna Segarceanu UMF Carol Davila, Bucharest, Romania

Geniculocalcarine tract

Lower bank of calcarine sulcus is the Lingual gyrus: it receives input from Lower retinal quadrants.
Therefore, Cuneus is the Upper bank of calcarine sulcus: it receives input from Upper retinal quadrants.
· Remember: lower retinal quadrants represent superior visual field quadrants and viceversa.
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---Miruna Segarceanu UMF Carol Davila, Bucharest, Romania

Basal ganglia: D1 vs. D2 connections

D1 has 1 connection (Striatum-GPi/SNpr).
D2 has 2 connections (Striatum-GPe-GPi/SNpr).
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---Christina Billcliffe Oxford University Medical School

Meninges: layers in order

PAD:
Piamater
Arachnoid
Dura
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---Mohammed Azizuddin Ahmed Indian Medical Council