Functional topography of anger and aggression in the human cerebellum

New insights into the functional neuroanatomic correlates of emotions point toward involvement cerebellum in anger and aggression. To identify cerebellar regions commonly activated tasks examining experience threat as well exerting an aggressive response, two coordinate-based activation likelihood estimation meta-analyses reporting a total 57 foci from 819 participants were performed. For processing (18 studies), results showed significant clusters bilateral posterior cerebellum, overlapping with previous on emotion processing, implying connectivity to cognitive, limbic, social canonic networks cerebral cortex. By contrast, active aggression expression (10 studies) was associated more anterior somatosensory motor displaying somatomotor default mode network. This study not only strengthens notion that is involved but also provides first quantitative evidence for distinct patterns related