Neurorehabilitation Impact on Neurocognitive Impairments in Cerebellar Lesions

Depending on their localization, cerebellar lesions cause various pronounced cognitive and/or affective dysfunctions, which are causally related to the involvement of cerebellar structures in neuronal networks for higher-order processing of cognitive and emotional items in the association areas of the cerebral cortex. For further investigation, event-related potential (ERP) analyses will be performed to record and visualize specific signals in the surface EEG, which should provide information about the course of treatment of neurorehabilitation with respect to a close correlation and thus predictive power to functional recovery that occurred as a result of cerebellar injury. With EEG parameters and clinical examination findings including neuropsychology, the functions for four thematically distributed domains (affective: prosody; cognitive: abstraction, linguistic and formal incongruence) will be recorded and evaluated over a four-week structured neurorehabilitation with an average therapy volume.