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 |
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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 |