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ArticleeLife2026

Multiple functions of cerebello-thalamic neurons in learning and offline consolidation of a motor skill in mice.

Andrés Pablo Varani, Caroline Mailhes-Hamon, Romain W Sala, Marie Sarraudy, Sarah Fouda, Jimena L Frontera, Clément Léna, Daniela Popa

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Article in eLife, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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8 authors.

Andrés Pablo VaraniInstitut de biologie de l'Ecole normale supérieure (IBENS), Ecole normale supérieure, CNRS, INSERM, PSL Research University, Paris, France.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4227-5785
Caroline Mailhes-HamonInstitut de biologie de l'Ecole normale supérieure (IBENS), Ecole normale supérieure, CNRS, INSERM, PSL Research University, Paris, France.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7009-7798
Romain W SalaInstitut de biologie de l'Ecole normale supérieure (IBENS), Ecole normale supérieure, CNRS, INSERM, PSL Research University, Paris, France.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6768-043X
Marie SarraudyInstitut de biologie de l'Ecole normale supérieure (IBENS), Ecole normale supérieure, CNRS, INSERM, PSL Research University, Paris, France.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0004-4546-1203
Sarah FoudaInstitut de biologie de l'Ecole normale supérieure (IBENS), Ecole normale supérieure, CNRS, INSERM, PSL Research University, Paris, France.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0007-1844-5373
Jimena L FronteraInstitut de biologie de l'Ecole normale supérieure (IBENS), Ecole normale supérieure, CNRS, INSERM, PSL Research University, Paris, France.
Clément LénaInstitut de biologie de l'Ecole normale supérieure (IBENS), Ecole normale supérieure, CNRS, INSERM, PSL Research University, Paris, France.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1431-7717
Daniela PopaInstitut de biologie de l'Ecole normale supérieure (IBENS), Ecole normale supérieure, CNRS, INSERM, PSL Research University, Paris, France.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8389-1122

Funding

Agence Nationale de la Recherche ANR-10-IDEX-0001 PSL-NEUROAgence Nationale de la Recherche ANR-10-INBS-04 IMACHEM-IBiSAAgence Nationale de la Recherche ANR-17-CE16-0019Agence Nationale de la Recherche ANR-19-CE37-0007-01Agence Nationale de la Recherche ANR-21-CE16-0017Agence Nationale de la Recherche ANR-21-CE37-0025Agence Nationale de la Recherche ANR-24-CE37-3944Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale EQU-202103012770
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Motor skill learning is a complex and gradual process that involves the cortex and basal ganglia, both crucial for the acquisition and long-term retention of skills. The cerebellum, which rapidly learns to adjust the movement, connects to the motor cortex and the striatum primarily via the ventral and intralaminar thalamus, respectively. Here, we evaluated the contribution of cerebellar neurons projecting to these thalamic nuclei in a skilled locomotion task in mice. Using a targeted chemogenetic inhibition that preserves the motor abilities, we found that cerebellar nuclei neurons projecting to the intralaminar thalamus contribute to learning and expression, while cerebellar nuclei neurons projecting to the ventral thalamus contribute to offline consolidation. Asymptotic performance, however, required each type of neurons. Thus, our results show that cerebellar neurons belonging to two parallel cerebello-thalamic pathways play distinct, but complementary, roles functioning on different timescales and both necessary for motor skill learning.

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CerebellumLearningMotor SkillsNeuronsThalamusAnimalsMaleMiceNeural Pathwayscerebellumchemogeneticsconsolidationmotor learningmouseneurosciencerotarodthalamus

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PMID42017796
PMCPMC13102391

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