Dagmar Timmann’s group has a long-standing interest to understand the physiology and pathophysiology of the human cerebellum. We investigate the involvement of the human cerebellum in motor, emotional and cognitive functions. We are interested whether the cerebellum is involved in particular forms of learning, which cerebellar areas participate and what the mechanisms of cerebellar involvement are.

A current focus of our research is to understand the contribution of the cerebellum to extinction processes. Structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is used in healthy participants and patients with different forms of ataxias. The excellent signal-to-noise-ratio of 7T MRI allows us to study cerebellar function at the level of the cerebellar cortex and cerebellar nuclei.