Cerebellar cognitive affective syndrome

Also known as: Schmahmann syndrome

Cerebellar syndrome of executive, linguistic, spatial and affective dysfunction.

Medical specialty: Neurology
Subspecialty: Neurology / Behavioral neurology
Sex & age distribution: Male: affected; Female: affected equally; Children: yes, reported in children after posterior fossa tumor surgery
Gene(s) involved: None recorded

Etiology & mechanism

Lesions of posterior cerebellum.

Gene(s) involved (0)

No gene recorded.

Symptoms & signs (4)

executive dysfunctionimpaired spatial cognitionlanguage deficitspersonality change

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