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. 2020 Oct 29;20(2):282–294. doi: 10.1007/s12311-020-01207-6

Table 1.

The main reports on speech, word fluency, and sentence construction disorders associated to cerebellar and basal ganglia damage, as described by the authors; reference in square brackets

Author(s) Language disorder Brain structures involved/type of pathology/syndrome
Speech
Darley et al., 1969 [1] Ataxic dysarthria Cerebellar disorders
Hypokinetic dysarthria Parkinsonism
Holmes et al., 2000 [2] Hypokinetic dysarthria Parkinson’s disease (PD)
Benke et al., 2000 [3] Repetitive speech phenomena PD
Perez-Lloret et al., 2012 [4] Dysarthria associated to non-speech motor deficit PD
Critchley EM, 1981 [5] Dysarthria associated to non-speech motor deficit Parkinsonism
Ackermann et al., 2014 [6] Hypokinetic dysarthria, non-speech motor deficit, vocal and non-vocal aspects of emotional aspects during speech Basal ganglia
van Lancker Sidtis et al., 2006 [7] Dysprosody Vascular lesion of basal ganglia
Casper et al., 2007 [8] Dysprosody Cerebellar ataxia
Skodda et al., 2009 [9] Dysprosody PD

Ciabarra et al., 2000 [10]

Tany and Sakay, 2010 [11]

Stuttering Subcortical and cerebellar vascular lesion
Juste et al., 2018 [12] Stuttering PD
Toft and Dietrichs, 2001 [13] Stuttering Subthalamic deep brain stimulation in PD
Yang et al., 2016 [14] Stuttering Developmental (cerebellum-basal ganglia thalamo cortical network)
Marien et al., 2018 (review) [15] Neurogenic “Foreign accent syndrome”(FAS) Vascular lesion of left motor/premotor cortex, basal ganglia and cerebellum
Keulen et al., (2017) (review and new cases) [16] Neurogenic FAS Posterior fossa damage
Priftis et al., 2020 [17] Pure FAS Right cortico-subcortical (lenticular) vascular lesion and diaschisis in the right thalamus and left cerebellum
Riva and Giorgi, 2000 [18] Mutism Surgery for cerebellar vermis medulloblastoma
Riva, 1998 [19] Mutism Cerebellitis
Word fluency
Leggio et al., 2000 [20] Reduced phonemic word fluency Vascular or degenerative damage of cerebellum
Neau et al., 2000 [21] Reduce word fluency (letter) Vascular damage of cerebellum (unilateral left/right/bilateral)
Schweizer et al., 2010 [22] Reduced word fluency Vascular damage (right cerebellum)
Peterburs et al., 2010 [23] Reduced word fluency(letter) Vascular damage (cerebellar unilateral left/unilateral right/bilateral)
Azuma et al., 1997 [24] Reduced letter fluency PD
Auriacombe et al., 1993 [25] Reduced category fluency PD

McDow et al., 2011 [26]

Pettit et al., 2013 [27]

No direct comparison between letter and semantic fluency PD
Obeso et al., 2012 [28] No difference between phonemic and category word fluency PD
Henry JD, Crawford, 2004 (meta-analysis) [29] Semantic fluency more impaired than letter fluency PD
Ho et al., 2001 [30] Reduced verbal fluency (decreased phonemic switching) Huntington disease (HD)
Radanovic and Mansur, 2017 [31] Reduced verbal fluency (in aphasic patients) Vascular lesion of basal ganglia
Sentence construction

Silveri et al., 1994 [32]

Marien et al., 199 [33]

Zettin et al., 1997 [34]

Gasparini et al., 1999 [35]

Agrammatism Vascular lesion (right cerebellum)
Justus et al., 2004 [36] Subclinical deficit in grammatical morphology Vascular and degenerative cerebellar damage
Troche et al., 2012 [37] Sentence simplification PD
Murray and Lenz, 2001 [38] Sentence simplification PD and HD
Giavazzi et al., 2018 [39] Altered selection of grammatical morphemes HD
Hinzen et al., 2018 [40] Sentence simplification HD
Dick et al., 2018 [41] No syntactic impairment PD
Verb deficit

Signorini et al., 2006 [42]

Silveri et al., 2012 [43]

Cousin et al., 2018 [44]

Garcia et al., 2018 [45]

Crescentini et al., 2008 [46]

Colman et al., 2009 [47]

Deficit in processing the word class “verbs” PD
Cotelli et al., 2007 [48] Deficit in processing the word class “verbs” Parkinsonism
Frank et al., 2007 [49] Preservation of the processing of the word class “verbs” Acute cerebellar lesion
Richter et al., 2004 [50] Preservation of the processing of the word class “verbs” Cerebellar atrophy