Advances from probabilistic tractography in connections of the limbic system with the cerebellum

The limbic system is a complex set of brain .......................In this work, a wider sample of normal subject was examided by using probabilistic Constrained Spherical Deconvolution (CSD) tractography, which represents a method able to overcome many limitations of other Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) techniques, providing more accurate data. We found evidences in the human brain that the cerebellum is widely linked with limbic-related strctures and provided a more reliable demonstration of the cerebello-lymbic pathways.........................Finally, the demonstration of the existence of cerebello-limbic connections could constitute an important step in the knowledge of the anatomic substrate of non-motor cerebellar functions.